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DES cracked by teenagers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bellovin)
Thu Sep 13 02:44:56 2001
From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 16:32:13 -0400
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According to http://www.hk-imail.com/inews/public/article_v.cfm?articleid=28867&intcatid=1,
some teenagers "reportedly cracked an encryption technology called Data
Encryption Standard (DES)". I'm skeptical, but I thought I'd toss it
out. Anyone have any details?
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
http://www.wilyhacker.com
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