Re: DES_ono

[Matt Blaze <mab@crypto.com>]

> John Young writes:
> 
> >   Citing the crypto-expert BSA study noted here by Matt
> >   Blaze, Computerworld of 2-12-96:
> 
> >   "Standard Encryption Vulnerable To Attack. Banking's most
> >   trusted technique for funds transfer questioned."
> 
> So the banker's finally figured out what the NSA told us 14 years ago?
> Great.

Actually, that article concludes that they *haven't* figured it out yet.

The report that the bankers haven't figured out yet, by the way,
is available online at:
  ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/mab/keylength.txt  [ASCII text]
or
  ftp://ftp.research.att.com/dist/mab/keylength.ps   [PostScript]

-matt