1998-03-31 - 3DES Weakness

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From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1998-03-31 12:45:05 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 04:45:05 -0800 (PST)

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From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 04:45:05 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: 3DES Weakness
Message-ID: <199803311244.HAA20875@camel7.mindspring.com>
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NYT-Markoff reports today on Biham and Knudsen's paper
on 3DES weakness, "Cryptanalysis of the ANSI X9.52 
CBCM Mode," noted here a few days ago.

The ANSI X9.F1 committee has held up implementing its
standard as a result, and may have to wait for AES. 
Credit is given to the worldwide DES crack.

   http://www.nytimes.com

See a mirror:

   http://jya.com/3des-weak.htm

Get the Biham/Knudsen paper:

  http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/%7Ebiham/publications.html







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