From: Steve Schear <schear@lvcm.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 17:14:02 -0700 (PDT)
To: "Kawika Daguio" <rdl@mit.edu
Subject: Re: 3DES weak because DES falls to brute-force? (was Re: John Gilmore...)
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>One of the reasons we so aggressively pursued the negotiations over export
>control with the Administration and have pushed the AES, and our PKI is
>the collateral damage from the export control legislative debate.   When
>the AES is finalized it will be followed closely by  an ANSI X9 standard.
>Once these standards and infrastructure are established, the concerns
>about brute force attacks should be largely behind us.

I think it likely, biological computation based brute force attacks will be
available much sooner than many think.

--Steve

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