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Re: Pop Count Instruction and crytanalysis

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bellovin)
Fri Jan 29 23:56:22 1999

To: "Jitze Couperus" <jcouperus@creativeis.com>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net, "John Young" <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:22:52 -0500
From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>

In message <00a701be4bcc$7c9f9f80$f804b381@jitze.svl.cdc.com>, "Jitze Couperus"
 writes:
> 
> Some 30 years later, I find the paper cited by Steve Bellovin
> on "Probable Plaintext Cryptanalysis" to be extrememely
> interesting - in particular it cites another paper
> about "A Programmable Plaintext Recognizer". This is
> the only open documentation I have ever come across that
> discusses this kind of mechanism in any detail. 

Thanks for a very interesting article.  The other paper you cite
is by David Wagner and myself, and can be found at
http://www.research.att.com/~smb/papers/recog.ps (or .pdf).


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