From: "Nobuki Nakatuji" <bd1011@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 22:00:08 -0700 (PDT)
To: vin@shore.net
Subject: Re: Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has decided to make its MISTY    public key......
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>At 2:46 AM -0400 8/12/98, Nobuki Nakatuji wrote:
>>Mitsubishi Electric Corp. has decided to make its MISTY public key
>>encryption algorithm available free of charge in an attempt promote 
its
>>use.
>
>	Sir: Your report is at least partially incorrect, and inevitably
>misleading. Melco's MISTY is not a PKC, it is a suite of two secret-key
>block ciphers using 64-bit blocks and 128-bit keys. I don't know 
details
>about the availability of MISTY code from Melco or what license
>arrangements are now available, but at least one of the MISTY 
algorithms
>(MISTY1) was published as an IETF RFC (and Melco has always said it 
hoped
>to make MISTY a standard.)
>
>	The Melco websites don't seem to offer any new infomation about
>MISTY licenses or pricing, and I believe the Mitsubishi staff is still 
on
>company-wide vacation. You may wish to review your source info.
>
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http://www.melco.co.jp/news/1998/0805-b.htm

but,It is written in Japanese.



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