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1994-06-03 - Re: Black Eye for NSA, NIST, and Denning

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From: “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@imsi.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 94 04:47:02 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Black Eye for NSA, NIST, and Denning
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Derek Atkins says:
> The format of the LEAF block is public knowledge.  Here is how it
> is formed:

Er, the CONTENT of the LEAF block is approximately known (the method
for computing the checksum is not public knowledge, for instance) but
there isn't any public data (to my knowledge) on things like what
the format of the block actually is.

Perry

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