1994-03-26 - Re: a citation sought..

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From: smb@research.att.com
To: “Herb Lin” <hlin@nas.edu>
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From: smb@research.att.com
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 94 04:21:05 PST
To: "Herb Lin" <hlin@nas.edu>
Subject: Re: a citation sought..
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	 I'm looking for the paper of last year that suggested how
	 insecure 56 bit DES is against NSA-scale computers.
	 Citation?  Or if it's on line, so much the better.

More precisely, it's special-purpose hardware, not NSA-scale computers.
See ftp.eff.org:/pub/EFF/Policy/Crypto/Misc/Technical/des_break.ps.gz.
There are other papers in that directory that you may find of interest.





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