3DES weak because DES falls to brute-force? (was Re: John Gilmore...)

[Steve Schear]

>One of the reasons we so aggressively pursued the negotiations over export
>control with the Administration and have pushed the AES, and our PKI is
>the collateral damage from the export control legislative debate.   When
>the AES is finalized it will be followed closely by  an ANSI X9 standard.
>Once these standards and infrastructure are established, the concerns
>about brute force attacks should be largely behind us.

I think it likely, biological computation based brute force attacks will be
available much sooner than many think.

--Steve

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