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Re: Lotus Notes 24-bit sellout

To: Jerry Whiting <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Lotus Notes 24-bit sellout
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 12:07:54 -0400
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 12 Apr 1996 09:21:29 PDT." <[email protected]>
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Jerry Whiting writes:
> Definitely a deal with the Devil.  Given that we're talking about IBM, not 
> Lotus none of this surprises me given IBM's Lucifer/DES history with spook 
> input years ago.  Then again to be fair, I don't know if the 40+24 deal 
> was cooked up before or after the IBM/Lotus merger.
> 

Lucifer wasn't any stronger thatn DES. Please learn a bit about the
history of how DES was developed and what attacks it was built to
withstand. The story is all 100% public at this point.

Perry

References:
- Lotus Notes 24-bit sellout
  - From: Jerry Whiting <[email protected]>

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