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Re: RSA Down Under
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vin McLellan)
Mon Jan 11 20:55:14 1999
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:35:54 -0500
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net>
Cc: aucrypto@suburbia.net, e-commerc@www.ispo.cec.be
A hundred helpful folks have already gently (and none too gently;-)
pointed out my two most annoying errors.
The EFF's DES-Cracker is called "Deep Crack," not "Deep Blue," as I
damn well know. It was, I believe, named in a playful spoof on the name of
D-Blue, which is IBM's cybermagnificent chess-playing machine.
Even worse, given my subject, I short-changed Ron Rivest and
neglected to mention the latest in his RC ("Ron's Code") series of RSA
cryptosystems: RC6. <sigh> It is RSA's RC6 - not RC5 - that is a candidate
to replace the Digital Encryption Standard (DES).
There was also a tangled line with a couple of words missing. The
little incoherent paragraph, about half way through the post, should read:
"As I've heard the story, Young and Hudson, representing the
nascent RSA-Australia, worked for months to prove to technical examiners
from US Dept. of Commerce, and the NSA, that none of Young's code in the
new BSAF SSL-C toolkit was directly based on any code or technical analysis
developed in the US of A."
Mea maxima culpa! And to think I used to complain about copy
editors. Thank you all for your comments.
_Vin
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its nature will resist efforts to restrict it to bureaucrats and others who
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