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From: mats@oblio.UUCP (Mats Wichmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: fast "crypt" routine
Summary: pointer to further info
Message-ID: <419@oblio.UUCP>
Date: 18 May 89 15:11:33 GMT
References: <39439@bbn.COM> <720009@hpsad.HP.COM>
Organization: Counterpoint Computers, Inc. San Jose CA 95131
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In article <720009@hpsad.HP.COM>, walter@hpsad.HP.COM (Walter Coole) writes:
> crypt's algorithm was designed to be slow.  If there existed a fast crypt, it
> would be dangerous, as it would allow rapid trial of obvious passwords.

For further reading on this issue, refer to _Computing_Systems_ (the Usenix
Association Journal), Volume 1, Number 3. Matt Bishop presents a paper
entitled _An_Application_of_a_Fast_Data_Encryption_Standard_Implementation_.
The paper has also, according to the footnote, been published as TR 87.18 by
the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science.

-mats wichmann
-acer counterpoint, inc.