Re: HACKERS SMASH U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCRYPTION STANDARD

[Rabid Wombat <wombat@mcfeely.bsfs.org>]

On Wed, 18 Jun 1997, sameer may have penned some advertising:

> 	  HACKERS SMASH U.S. GOVERNMENT ENCRYPTION STANDARD
> 
> Oakland, California (June 18, 1997)-The 56-bit DES encryption
> standard, long claimed "adequate" by the U.S. Government, was
> shattered yesterday using an ordinary Pentium personal computer

... and quite a few other assorted systems that didn't happen to 
search the "lucky keyspace." Was anyone on DESCHALL using a Trash-80? ;)

> INetZ vice president Jon Gay said "We hope that this will encourage
> people to demand the highest available encryption security, such as
> the 128-bit security provided by C2Net's Stronghold product, rather
> than the weak 56-bit ciphers used in many other platforms."

Of course.