[66793] in Cypherpunks
Re: Transforming variable-length to fixed keys
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dustbin Freedom Remailer)
Sun Sep 29 16:29:14 1996
Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:05:03 -0400
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Dustbin Freedom Remailer <dustman@athensnet.com>
> [1] There's a story from IBM when they were testing a new IBM-internal
> encryption system for long-haul telecoms applications. They were
> playing around with bouncing encrypted transmissions off an IBM-owned
> satellite when they were contacted by the NSA who said "You're not using
> DES. Stop it".
This story has already been debunked on this mailing list, I believe.
