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Re: SEAL cipher info requested (something actually list related!)
>
> Christopher Allen writes:
> > At 4:27 PM 1/27/96, Anonymous wrote:
> > >Anybody have info on the SEAL cipher? I can't find any
> > >descriptions or analysis of it. Refs, proceedings or URLS
> > >would be a good thing.
> >
> > I also am interested in references to it.
> >
> > I'm told that it was invented by a cryptographer at IBM, and that it
> > patented, so that should help in the search.
>
> Its a Don Coppersmith creation. It is blazingly fast. I believe it is
> patented.
>
> Perry
>
Get Applied Cryptography!!! - Page 398 in issue 2.
Source code on page 667
Brief - steam cipher. Phil Rogaway and Don Coppersmith @ IBM.
uses "pseudo-random function family". Fast. Patented.
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