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RE: MMB question



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Johnathan Corgan writes:
 > In the errata to Applied Cryptography, Bruce Schneier makes the following
 > comment, though nowhere did he elaborate on this:
 > 
 > Pages 266-7:  Since the publication of this book, MMB has been
 > broken.  Do not use this algorithm.

Well, that settles that.  Any more details available from anybody?

And: are the errata available on-line anywhere?  Sounds like a very
worthwhile thing to have.

Thanks,
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