3DES Weakness

[John Young <jya@pipeline.com>]

NYT-Markoff reports today on Biham and Knudsen's paper
on 3DES weakness, "Cryptanalysis of the ANSI X9.52 
CBCM Mode," noted here a few days ago.

The ANSI X9.F1 committee has held up implementing its
standard as a result, and may have to wait for AES. 
Credit is given to the worldwide DES crack.

   http://www.nytimes.com

See a mirror:

   http://jya.com/3des-weak.htm

Get the Biham/Knudsen paper:

  http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/%7Ebiham/publications.html