From: Johnathan Corgan <jcorgan@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 94 08:53:10 PST
To: "L. Todd Masco" <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: MMB question
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>What's the current thought on MMB?  Has it undergone serious analysis
>and if so, what's the conclusion been?

In the errata to Applied Cryptography, Bruce Schneier makes the following
comment, though nowhere did he elaborate on this:

Pages 266-7:  Since the publication of this book, MMB has been
broken.  Do not use this algorithm.

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