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Re: Losing the Code War by Stephen Budiansky
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Sun Feb 3 11:50:13 2002
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Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2002 11:56:31 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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To: Amir Herzberg <amir@beesites.co.il>
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cryptography@wasabisystems.com
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Amir Herzberg wrote:
> The `meet in the middle` attack works against double encryption; that's
> why Triple DES is performing three DES operations with two keys.
Some variants use 3 keys, in fact.
Cheers,
Ben.
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