Two Bits Four Bits ETC

Brian D Williams talon57 at well.com
Wed Jan 31 14:47:36 PST 1996



>>Brian D Williams writes:
>>Excellent point Bill! Lets not forget that IBM owns Lotus Notes,
>>be sure to include that in your bashing. They caved in on Lucifer
>>after all. ;)

>"Perry E Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> adds:
>Lucifer isn't stronger than DES, so it wasn't a cave in. An
>understanding of differential cryptanalysis makes all the
>difference...

True, I was refering to them halving the original key length.

Brian







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