[51581] in Cypherpunks
Re: What's anyone know about Teledyne Electronic Technologies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JonWienke@aol.com)
Thu Mar 7 02:09:55 1996
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 01:42:24 -0500
From: JonWienke@aol.com
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
>Teledyne (TET) is out marketing a "new" crypto system as a competitor
>against DES and what TET calls "linear" cryptosystems. They are claiming
>a non-linear approach in which (as best I can tell) they are permuting
>the s-boxes and using 4 bit/16 entry substitution tables.
Dont trust it unless you are a good cryptanalyst and have a copy of the
source code. Most commercial crypto products are crap.
Jonathan Wienke
