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3DES Weakness

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Young)
Tue Mar 31 09:22:45 1998

Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 07:47:32 -0500
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>

NYT-Markoff reports today on Biham and Knudsen's paper
on 3DES weakness, "Cryptanalysis of the ANSI X9.52 
CBCM Mode."

The ANSI X9.F1 committee has held up implementing its
standard as a result, and may have to wait for AES. 
Credit is given to the worldwide DES crack.

   http://www.nytimes.com

See a mirror:

   http://jya.com/3des-weak.htm

Get the Biham/Knudsen paper:

  http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/%7Ebiham/publications.html




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