[82045] in Cypherpunks
Re: Bullshit RE: HACKERS SMASH U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCRYPTION
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Bradley)
Thu Jun 19 09:44:11 1997
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 09:21:59 +0000 ( )
From: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
To: ARTURO GRAPA YSUNZA <AGRAPA@banamex.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <c=MX%a=_%p=BANACCI%l=CENTRALES/BARRANCA24/0001F962@MEX3976BCAOP1>
Reply-To: Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk>
> > "That DES can be broken so quickly should send a chill through the
> >heart of anyone relying on it for secure communications,"
>
> I'm shitting bricks. No mention was made that only 25% of the keyspace
> was tested.
Not only that, but single DES with a 56 bit key is just not being used
anymore in any company which has the slightest clue. If they can run a
distributed crack on 3DES with independent subkeys then I`ll give them
some attention.
I`m not downgrading the effort, Joe "wired reader" Sixpack doesn`t know
the difference between DES, 3DES and his ass anyway, so it is a
significant publicity stunt that will get normal non-specialist people
thinking about the export laws, and about how quickly DES can be broken
by the government if it can be broken by a few guys on the internet in
months. All I am saying is that looking at it from a purely scientific
point of view it is not a great cryptanalytic achievement, merely a PR stunt.
> Unfortunately some companies depend on BS to sell products. Glad to see
> C2Net is no different,
What did you expect?
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