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Re: U.S. Broker goes 40-bit only
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Smith)
Wed Apr 30 12:16:56 1997
In-Reply-To: <199704292213.PAA16312@jefferson.hidden.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 10:02:53 -0600
To: cryptography@c2.net
From: Rick Smith <smith@securecomputing.com>
This is the part I like:
> However, we beg to differ with your view that the 40-bit encryption is
> "insecure". Since our security system uses one-time pads, it would be
> extremely difficult for anyone to decode a single packet, much less an
> entire transmission series.
"40 bit one-time pads." I suppose that's a Vernam cipher with a repeating
40 bit key? ROTFL. More likely it's someone using RC4/40 who doesn't know
what a one-time pad is.
Rick.
smith@securecomputing.com
