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from Interesting People: Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Apr 17 15:32:54 2000
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: 17 Apr 2000 15:28:15 -0400
Message-ID: <871z44frxs.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
Anyone know anything about this?
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Perry Metzger perry@piermont.com
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 07:03:27 -0400
From: David Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
Subject: IP: Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally
>From: MJacobs240@aol.com
>Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 06:58:52 EDT
>Subject: Check out ZDNet: News: Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
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> <A HREF="http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2542359,00.html">Click
> here: ZDNet: News: Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally</A>
Record encryption puzzle cracked -- finally
The broken encryption method is widely expected to secure
next-generation wireless devices. But is the break such bad news?
By Robert Lemos, ZDNet News
UPDATED April 14, 2000 7:06 AM PT
An encryption method widely expected to secure next-generation
wireless phones and other devices succumbed to a brute-force
collaborative effort to break it, a French research agency announced
Thursday.
An international team of researchers -- led by crypto researcher
Robert Harley of the French National Institute for Research in
Computer Science and Control, or INRIA -- and other computer
enthusiasts found the 108-bit key to a scrambled message after four
months of number crunching by 9,500 computers worldwide.
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