From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 03:15:11 +0800
To: Jerry Whiting <jwhiting@igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: Lotus Notes 24-bit sellout
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Jerry Whiting writes:
> Definitely a deal with the Devil.  Given that we're talking about IBM, not 
> Lotus none of this surprises me given IBM's Lucifer/DES history with spook 
> input years ago.  Then again to be fair, I don't know if the 40+24 deal 
> was cooked up before or after the IBM/Lotus merger.
> 

Lucifer wasn't any stronger thatn DES. Please learn a bit about the
history of how DES was developed and what attacks it was built to
withstand. The story is all 100% public at this point.

Perry