new 448 bit key by Indian firm

[Bill Stewart]

At 03:43 AM 11/3/98 +0530, Narayan Raghu wrote:
>            Indian firm unveils 448-bit encryption

448 bits sounds a lot like MD5-based encryption - perhaps Luby-Rackoff or MDC?
Or a homegrown system, doing successive MD5s or something?
MD5 is no longer the safest hash these days....


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					Bill
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