[Cialug] Complete C source online

Morris Dovey mrdovey at iedu.com
Thu Jul 25 16:32:16 CDT 2013


On 7/25/13 3:43 PM, Zachary Kotlarek wrote:
> If you have any way to find out what that vulnerability might be it's
> something today's cryptographers would still be interested to know.
> Even though DES is dead (and 3DES on the way out) any information
> about a better-than-brute-force attacks against it are useful in
> helping design new encryption systems.

I don’t. That conversation was a long time ago and if the information 
was correct, NSA already knew at least as much. The person with whom I 
was speaking was enough older than I that it’s unlikely he’s still 
alive. IIRC, at that time the existence of NSA was still classified.


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