Lotus Notes 24-bit sellout

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Sat Apr 13 12:15:11 PDT 1996



Jerry Whiting writes:
> Definitely a deal with the Devil.  Given that we're talking about IBM, not 
> Lotus none of this surprises me given IBM's Lucifer/DES history with spook 
> input years ago.  Then again to be fair, I don't know if the 40+24 deal 
> was cooked up before or after the IBM/Lotus merger.
> 

Lucifer wasn't any stronger thatn DES. Please learn a bit about the
history of how DES was developed and what attacks it was built to
withstand. The story is all 100% public at this point.

Perry






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