Vin McLellan <vin@shore.net> writes:
Then Paul Bradley <paul@fatmans.demon.co.uk> the sage moderator of Cryptography.Uk stepped in:
Not only that, but single DES with a 56 bit key is just not being used anymore in any company which has the slightest clue. If they can run a distributed crack on 3DES with independent subkeys then I`ll give them some attention.
You've convinced me, the UK _is_ on a different planet!
Nah, it's just Paul :-) Perhaps he should rephrase that to no one with a clue _should_ be using single DES. Clearly lots are in practice, in spite of their better judgement for political reasons. The US government influence via their export controls being a major factor pushing the practice of using too short key lengths. What's cryptography.uk? Adam -- Have *you* exported RSA today? --> http://www.dcs.ex.ac.uk/~aba/rsa/ print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<> )]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`