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Re: Prof Shamir arrested
At 01:00 PM 10/22/96 +0300, Jüri Kaljundi wrote:
> Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Rabid Wombat wrote:
>
>> Or is this the Avi Shamir who broke FEAL-8?
>
>Can you tell more of this? There is an Windows disk encryption utility
>called Teamware Crypto that uses FEAL-8. This program is quite popular in
>Europe, distributed and made by ICL Data.
The attacks on FEAL are pretty lengthy. _Applied Cryptography_ 2nd edition
by Bruce Schneier has a list of attacks on page 311. The Shamir attack is
not the one to worry about. Matsui and Yamagishi have an attack that
breaks it in 2^15 known plaintexts.
If you do not have a copy, I can dig up the references on it. (It is too
late/early for me to do it clearly at this point...)
Hope that helps.
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