On Wed, 2 Oct 1996, Adamsc wrote:
1. Is this a good idea? What will happen if DES becomes perceived as insecure?
That's Declan's department (and other non-clueless journalists - declan is just the most visible). If it get's widespread and the target is something like Digicash, it'd get picked up by the Crime/Snoozeweek crowd.
This is the meme I've been trying to spread -- that 56-bit DES is *not* secure. This cuts through all the rhetoric about differences between key recovery and key escrow, who's going to be in this industry alliance, etc. Bottom line: it sucks; your data are insecure; don't use it. That argument is one jlists can understand. And I think I've been successful. Tomorrow's issue of a popular newsmagazine may mention just this. -Declan // declan@eff.org // I do not represent the EFF // declan@well.com //