Garbled in transmission.

[Rick Smith]

At 8:05 PM -0400 6/20/97, ET wrote:
>I caught the Headline News mention of the DES crack and it
>unfortunately put the wrong spin on things.
>
>I can't remember it word for word, but it went like this:
>"If you're going to decrypt financial transactions you'd better
>be prepared to get 1000 computers and spend 3 months on
>the project."

At least Harry Houdini made it look easy when *he* cracked state of the art
security technology...

Rick.
smith at securecomputing.com      secure computing corporation
"Internet Cryptography" soon in print http://www.visi.com/crypto/