[1161] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Better DES challenge update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Thu Jul 3 09:41:25 1997
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 23:52:31 -0700
To: die@die.com, andreas@artcom.de (Andreas Bogk)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199707020440.AAA14622@pig.die.com>
At 12:40 AM 7/2/97 -0400, Dave Emery wrote:
> Not sure what the classic DES case really is. A real world
>working DES decryptor would almost certainly see a lot unknown plaintext
>or incompletely known plaintext to chew on.
One more time: many, if not most, of the message formats used in the
banking industry are specified in ANSI X.9 A10. You can purchase the specs
for a moderate fee. It is safe to assume that there are known headers for
banking related DES cracks.
--Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
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