From: Brian D Williams <talon57@well.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 06:47:36 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Two Bits Four Bits ETC
Message-ID: <199601312202.OAA12349@well.com>
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>>Brian D Williams writes:
>>Excellent point Bill! Lets not forget that IBM owns Lotus Notes,
>>be sure to include that in your bashing. They caved in on Lucifer
>>after all. ;)

>"Perry E Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> adds:
>Lucifer isn't stronger than DES, so it wasn't a cave in. An
>understanding of differential cryptanalysis makes all the
>difference...

True, I was refering to them halving the original key length.

Brian