1998-11-05 - Re: new 448 bit key by Indian firm
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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
To: Narayan Raghu <narry@geocities.com>
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Raw Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 04:00:25 +0800
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From: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 04:00:25 +0800
To: Narayan Raghu <narry@geocities.com>
Subject: Re: new 448 bit key by Indian firm
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At 03:43 AM 11/3/98 +0530, Narayan Raghu wrote:
> Indian firm unveils 448-bit encryption
448 bits sounds a lot like MD5-based encryption - perhaps Luby-Rackoff or MDC?
Or a homegrown system, doing successive MD5s or something?
MD5 is no longer the safest hash these days....
Thanks!
Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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- 1998-11-05 (Fri, 6 Nov 1998 04:00:25 +0800) - Re: new 448 bit key by Indian firm - Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
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- 1998-11-06 (Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:26:02 +0800) - Re: new 448 bit key by Indian firm - Narayan Raghu <narry@geocities.com>
- 1998-11-03 (Tue, 3 Nov 1998 08:15:10 +0800) - dbts: Lions and TEMPESTs and Black Helicopters (Oh, My!) - Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>