From: gtoal@an-teallach.com (Graham Toal)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 93 12:29:40 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: ... long live DES (sic)
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In article <"21031101903991/16267 David.D.L.LANDGREN@pub.oecd.fr writes:
 > It's all very well to be able to crack DES in 3.5 hours, but I don't know
 > of too many people who obligingly send out the plaintext and cyphertext of
 > a message together, or in some other way combinable.  If U can get the

It may ostensibly be a known-plaintext crack, but with a tiny addition
of chips to recognise cleartext, fixed markers like the run in to a 
compressed file or mail file, or generally less than random output,
it ceases to be so.  Such chips already exist.

G
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