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Re: Making _Real_ Money off a DES Break

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Tue Jun 24 16:45:22 1997

Date: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:46:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <v03102803afd5c15420c6@[207.167.93.63]>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>

On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Tim May wrote:
> Is anyone publishing on this? Are the details of the SWIFT and similar
> interbank transfer systems available anywhere?
> 
> (What kind of out-of-band checksums may exist? What kind of callback
> systems? What window of opportunity exists if a single DES key is found? Is
> it useful?)

All this interesting stuff is specified in exhaustive detail in ANSI X9 A10.
http://www.x9.org/

--Lucky


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