[6469] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: NEC Claims World's Strongest Encryption System - still more snake oil?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Karn)
Mon Jan 24 15:36:47 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:29:18 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <200001242029.MAA02641@servo.qualcomm.com>
From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com>
To: horns@t-online.de
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, karn@qualcomm.com
In-reply-to: <12CoYK-22EY08C@fmrl02.sul.t-online.de> (horns@t-online.de)
>NEC's system creates a intermediate key of several thousand bits in
>length from the master key, and that serves as the base for the
>encryption process. [...]
Can anybody say "key schedule generation"?
Phil
