[48832] in Cypherpunks
Re: Two Bits Four Bits ETC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian D Williams)
Wed Jan 31 17:06:49 1996
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:02:24 -0800
From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
>>Brian D Williams writes:
>>Excellent point Bill! Lets not forget that IBM owns Lotus Notes,
>>be sure to include that in your bashing. They caved in on Lucifer
>>after all. ;)
>"Perry E Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> adds:
>Lucifer isn't stronger than DES, so it wasn't a cave in. An
>understanding of differential cryptanalysis makes all the
>difference...
True, I was refering to them halving the original key length.
Brian
