[52780] in Cypherpunks
Re: HP & Export of DCE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard Melman)
Wed Mar 27 17:24:44 1996
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 16:29:31 -0500
From: Howard Melman <melman@osf.org>
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: Adam Shostack <adam@lighthouse.homeport.org>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199603271621.LAA02453@jekyll.piermont.com>
On Wed Mar 27, 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Adam Shostack writes:
> > I wasn't aware there were multiple things masquerading under the name
> > Secure RPC. In any event, does the crypto in DCE stand up to the
> > LaMacchia/Odlyzko attacks?
>
> They are attacks against Diffie-Hellman. I don't know if DCE uses D-H
> in a similar manner. The main problem was too small a (fixed) modulus.
It doesn't. DCE uses Kerberos v5.
Howard
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