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Re: German court: DES is no good
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Bogk)
Fri Sep 25 14:50:21 1998
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:04:02 +0200
From: Andreas Bogk <ich@andreas.org>
To: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <v04011770b2304a8d0640@[139.167.130.246]>; from Robert Hettinga on Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 03:14:31PM -0400
On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 03:14:31PM -0400, Robert Hettinga
forwarded a mail by Phillip Hallam-Baker:
> It seems unlikely that the loss was due to breaking DES.
I don't consider this unlikely, after all, there is only one key for all
the EC cards. As the EFF has demonstrated, the cost of breaking DES is
about $250,000. The losses due to EC card abuse went well into the millions.
Andreas
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