1996-09-29 - Re: Transforming variable-length to fixed keys

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From: Dustbin Freedom Remailer <dustman@athensnet.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Message Hash: 1fd7a645562dc3c1b8bf594279911cd95d8dba01e4e2df306e33512ff65cd40d
Message ID: <199609291955.PAA06871@godzilla.athensnet.com>
Reply To: <84399947820692@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
UTC Datetime: 1996-09-29 22:30:14 UTC
Raw Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 06:30:14 +0800

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From: Dustbin Freedom Remailer <dustman@athensnet.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 06:30:14 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Transforming variable-length to fixed keys
In-Reply-To: <84399947820692@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Message-ID: <199609291955.PAA06871@godzilla.athensnet.com>
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> [1] There's a story from IBM when they were testing a new IBM-internal 
>     encryption system for long-haul telecoms applications.  They were 
>     playing around with bouncing encrypted transmissions off an IBM-owned 
>     satellite when they were contacted by the NSA who said "You're not using 
>     DES.  Stop it".

This story has already been debunked on this mailing list, I believe.






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