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Re: VoicePGP cracked in 10 minutes?...
On Tue, 31 Jan 1995, root wrote:
> I heard a rumor hear in Ctl. Tx. that the VoicePGP project was cracked in the
> last couple of days in approx. 10 minutes. Anyone have any info on this other
> than one of those wild rumors that occur?
Well, uh, yeah.
VoicePGP hasn't been completed yet, much less released. If it's
been cracked, that's very ... suprising.
VoicePGP uses Diffie-Hellman and 3DES with three independent
subkeys. If anyone has come up with an attack on D-H or 3DES that works
in ten minutes, I'd love to hear about it, as I'm sure the rest of you would.
Call Security was cracked by Don Coppersmith [if you don't know who
he is, shame on you: he led the IBM Lucifer/DES team] about a day after the
announcement on sci.crypt. Call Security != VoicePGP.
Michael
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