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Re: cracking n-DES?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Sat Jun 28 12:56:09 1997

To: daw@cs.berkeley.edu (David Wagner)
cc: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 10:06:16 -0400
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>

	 I don't know whether I really consider any of these possibilities as v
	ery
	 likely.  It'd certainly help to know what software Poulsen used.

Thanks for an interesting set of attacks.  The book states that he used
Sun's and IBM's implementations of DES.  The former is probably Sun's
"des" command for SunOS 4.1.x; I don't know about the latter.

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