ATMs moving to triple DES.

Matt Curtin cmcurtin at interhack.net
Fri Aug 15 10:23:49 PDT 2003


"Trei, Peter" <ptrei at rsasecurity.com> writes:

> Finally, five full years after DES was definitively proved
> to be vulnerable to brute force attack, the major ATM
> networks are moving to 3DES.

It was even longer than that...we passed six years ago in June.  (Time
flies, non?)

You started it.  It's all your fault. :-)

-- 
Matt Curtin, CISSP, IAM, INTP.  Keywords: Lisp, Unix, Internet, INFOSEC.
Founder, Interhack Corporation +1 614 545 HACK http://web.interhack.com/
Author of /Developing Trust: Online Privacy and Security/ (Apress, 2001)





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