From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 1996 01:08:44 +0800
To: Adamsc <Adamsc@io-online.com>
Subject: Re: Can we kill single DES?
In-Reply-To: <19961004020539265.AAB223@GIGANTE>
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On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Adamsc wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Oct 1996 16:27:18 -6, Peter Trei wrote:
> 
> >1. Is this a good idea? What will happen if DES becomes perceived
> >    as insecure?
> 
> That's Declan's department (and other non-clueless journalists - declan is
> just the most visible).   If it get's widespread and the target is something
> like Digicash, it'd get picked up by the Crime/Snoozeweek crowd.

Sorry, not a chance. The symmetric cipher used in Ecash is 3DES. Since 
DigiCash has the good fortune to be located in The Netherlands, full 
strength crypto can be (and is) used in all their products.

I would advise any company suffering from a loss of competitiveness due to 
US export regulations to do the logical thing and move their operation 
to a more suitable location.

--Lucky