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Re: The Upcoming DES Challenge
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Wed Jan 8 13:40:23 1997
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 11:13:03 -0500
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
Probable plaintext attacks are quite feasible, and aren't much harder
than known plaintext attacks. All it takes is a decent knowledge
of the characteristics of the plaintext. See
ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/smb/recog.ps, by myself and David
Wagner, and ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/smb/probtxt.ps, by me.
The papers show two different techniques for launching such attacks.
--Steve Bellovin
