1996-04-14 - Re: carrick, Blowfish & the NSA
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From: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
To: perry@piermont.com
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Message ID: <96Apr14.100201edt.1826@cannon.ecf.toronto.edu>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-04-14 16:21:22 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 00:21:22 +0800
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From: SINCLAIR DOUGLAS N <sinclai@ecf.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 00:21:22 +0800
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: carrick, Blowfish & the NSA
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Message-ID: <96Apr14.100201edt.1826@cannon.ecf.toronto.edu>
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> Jerry Whiting writes:
> > One reason we chose to use Blowfish as the basis for carrick is that
> > it _is_ a new algorithm. One has to assume that the NSA et al. has
> > tools optimized to crack DES and possibly IDEA/RSA. At least let's
> > give them something else to sweat over.
>
> They won't sweat over it long. Blowfish was broken.
Yikes! Are you sure? This is the first I've heard of it. This would mean
that PGPPhone is not secure.
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