From: "L. Todd Masco" <cactus@hks.net>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 94 10:19:08 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: RE: MMB question
Message-ID: <199412061823.NAA12765@bb.hks.net>
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Johnathan Corgan writes:
 > 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.

Well, that settles that.  Any more details available from anybody?

And: are the errata available on-line anywhere?  Sounds like a very
worthwhile thing to have.

Thanks,
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cactus@hks.net |  scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean -
cactus@bb.com  |  neither more nor less.'"   - Lewis Carroll
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