From: droelke@rdxsunhost.aud.alcatel.com (Daniel R. Oelke)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 11:29:53 +0800
To: ChristopherA@consensus.com
Subject: Re: SEAL cipher info requested (something actually list related!)
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> Christopher Allen writes:
> > At 4:27 PM 1/27/96, Anonymous wrote:
> > >Anybody have info on the SEAL cipher?  I can't find any
> > >descriptions or analysis of it.  Refs, proceedings or URLS
> > >would be a good thing.
> > 
> > I also am interested in references to it.
> > 
> > I'm told that it was invented by a cryptographer at IBM, and that it
> > patented, so that should help in the search.
> 
> Its a Don Coppersmith creation. It is blazingly fast. I believe it is
> patented.
> 
> Perry
> 

Get Applied Cryptography!!! - Page 398 in issue 2.
Source code on page 667
Brief - steam cipher.  Phil Rogaway and Don Coppersmith @ IBM.
        uses "pseudo-random function family". Fast. Patented.
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droelke@aud.alcatel.com                             Richardson, TX