[51450] in Cypherpunks
Re: SEAL cipher info requested (something actually list related!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Mar 5 16:36:45 1996
To: Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@consensus.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 04 Mar 1996 22:41:24 PST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 16:14:47 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Christopher Allen writes:
> At 4:27 PM 1/27/96, Anonymous wrote:
> >Anybody have info on the SEAL cipher? I can't find any
> >descriptions or analysis of it. Refs, proceedings or URLS
> >would be a good thing.
>
> I also am interested in references to it.
>
> I'm told that it was invented by a cryptographer at IBM, and that it
> patented, so that should help in the search.
Its a Don Coppersmith creation. It is blazingly fast. I believe it is
patented.
Perry
