[105079] in Cypherpunks
Re: new 448 bit key by Indian firm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Stewart)
Thu Nov 5 14:40:11 1998
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 23:40:56 -0800
To: Narayan Raghu <narry@geocities.com>
From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net, cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <363E2E8F.EE570559@geocities.com>
Reply-To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
At 03:43 AM 11/3/98 +0530, Narayan Raghu wrote:
> Indian firm unveils 448-bit encryption
448 bits sounds a lot like MD5-based encryption - perhaps Luby-Rackoff or MDC?
Or a homegrown system, doing successive MD5s or something?
MD5 is no longer the safest hash these days....
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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