Is CDMF secure?
Bill Frantz
frantz at netcom.com
Tue Mar 3 23:32:30 PST 1998
At 11:55 PM -0800 3/2/98, Bill Stewart wrote:
>>Is CDMF secure? and, What sort of algorithm is it? Thanks.
>
>CMDF is a version of DES watered down to 40-bit key strength.
>I think IBM was to blame; it was designed for exportability.
Well, to IBM's credit, they didn't call it secure. They called it a Data
Masking Facility.
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