On Tue, 31 Jan 1995, root wrote:

I heard a rumor hear in Ctl. Tx. that the VoicePGP project was cracked in the last couple of days in approx. 10 minutes. Anyone have any info on this other than one of those wild rumors that occur?

Well, uh, yeah. VoicePGP hasn't been completed yet, much less released. If it's been cracked, that's very ... suprising. VoicePGP uses Diffie-Hellman and 3DES with three independent subkeys. If anyone has come up with an attack on D-H or 3DES that works in ten minutes, I'd love to hear about it, as I'm sure the rest of you would. Call Security was cracked by Don Coppersmith [if you don't know who he is, shame on you: he led the IBM Lucifer/DES team] about a day after the announcement on sci.crypt. Call Security != VoicePGP. Michael -- Michael Handler <grendel@netaxs.com> Civil Liberty Through Complex Mathematics Philadelphia, PA "Toi qui fais au proscrit ce regard calme et haut" -- Baudelaire * Skotoseme PGP Key ID FC031321 Print: 9B DB 9A B0 1B 0D 56 DA 61 6A 57 AD B2 4C 7B AF