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From: ljdickey@watmath.UUCP (Lee Dickey)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: DES
Message-ID: <6154@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Nov-83 17:32:41 EST
Article-I.D.: watmath.6154
Posted: Fri Nov 18 17:32:41 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Nov-83 19:37:37 EST
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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To: news
Subject: Re  DES Cracked at Waterloo? : net.crypt
References: <2725@utcsrgv.UUCP>

The article that outer@utcsrgv quoted from the Toronto Star seems
to be a copy of the one that appeared in the Kitchener-Waterloo
Record last week.

         The K-W Record got it wrong.
 
         Mullin told them so.
 
         The K-W Record told him they would not give the wrong
           scoop to the wire-services.

         I guess they let it slip anyway.
 
         Too bad.

Mullin, Blake, and Vanstone have killed the finite logarithm method for
the size 127, (one hour), but do not claim to have mopped up the logarithm
problem in its entirety.

NO CLAIM has been made by them about cracking DES.

-- 
  Lee Dickey, University of Waterloo.  (ljdickey@watmath.UUCP)
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