[82022] in Cypherpunks
Re: HACKERS SMASH U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCRYPTION STANDARD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rabid Wombat)
Wed Jun 18 23:23:49 1997
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:26:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
To: sameer <sameer@c2.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <199706190155.SAA08785@gabber.c2.net>
Reply-To: Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>
On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, sameer may have penned some advertising:
> HACKERS SMASH U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCRYPTION STANDARD
>
> Oakland, California (June 18, 1997)-The 56-bit DES encryption
> standard, long claimed "adequate" by the U.S. Government, was
> shattered yesterday using an ordinary Pentium personal computer
... and quite a few other assorted systems that didn't happen to
search the "lucky keyspace." Was anyone on DESCHALL using a Trash-80? ;)
> INetZ vice president Jon Gay said "We hope that this will encourage
> people to demand the highest available encryption security, such as
> the 128-bit security provided by C2Net's Stronghold product, rather
> than the weak 56-bit ciphers used in many other platforms."
Of course.
