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From: leichter@yale-com.UUCP (Jerry Leichter)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: Re: DES Cracked at Waterloo?
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Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 18:09:59 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 15 18:09:59 1983
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I can't comment on this article, but I did get hold of the previously-mentioned
one about the proposed DES key-distribution technique.  (For the record, it
is:  "Computing Logarithms in Finite Fields of Characteristic Two", by
I.F. Blake, R. Fuji-Hara, R.C. Mullin, and S.A. Vanstone.  I have a copy
of a University of Waterloo pre-print with no identifying number or indication
of where or when it will be published.)  The article looks good; these people
have know whereof they speak.  It is, of course, possible that the Star
distorted their findings - the press isn't very good at understanding what
is going on in technical fields - but if they are really claiming they can
break DES, I'd believe them.
							-- Jerry
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