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Re: cracking n-DES?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Baker)
Sat Jun 28 02:16:03 1997
From: "Scott Baker"<sbaker@ohcu.org>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 01:04:22 -0500
daw@cs.berkeley.edu wrote:
>Ok, challenge taken. If I understand the proposal correctly, d|t|d|t|d
>isn't nearly as strong as 3-DES: this post describes how to break it with
>3 * 2^^{56} trial decryptions and one chosen plaintext query, I think.
So, then, how long would this take on, say, a Pentium 133?
--Scott
