HP & Export of DCE

Howard Melman melman at osf.org
Thu Mar 28 06:18:01 PST 1996



On Wed Mar 27, 1996, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> Adam Shostack writes:
> > I wasn't aware there were multiple things masquerading under the name
> > Secure RPC.  In any event, does the crypto in DCE stand up to the
> > LaMacchia/Odlyzko attacks?
> 
> They are attacks against Diffie-Hellman. I don't know if DCE uses D-H
> in a similar manner. The main problem was too small a (fixed) modulus.

It doesn't.  DCE uses Kerberos v5.

Howard

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