From: Carl Ellison <cme@cybercash.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 13:59:08 +0800
To: iang@cs.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: NSA leak (fwd)
Message-ID: <199707280532.BAA03808@carl.cybercash.com>
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   Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 23:11:22 EST
   From: Ian Goldberg <iang@cs.berkeley.edu>

   Uh-huh.  Unless the Administration has granted a secret Executive Order
   repealing the Laws of Physics for the NSA, the above statement, if true,
   would imply one of the following things:

	[3 violations of physics as we know it]

I'm not saying that the posting was legit, but you can apply the same
thinking to the breaking of Enigma using 1940 technology.

The assumption which might not be valid is that 128 bits of key in RC4 or
RC2 (the popular export algorithms) is worth a full 128 bits.

 - Carl


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