Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 23:41:53 -0400 (EDT) From: "Michael Richards" <michael@fastmail.ca> To: silby@silby.com Cc: kris@obsecurity.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: US Congress already discussing bans on strong crypto Message-ID: <3BA6C281.0001FF.04743@frodo.searchcanada.ca>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--------------Boundary-00=_T9AUABRTZ6EOO49D7TH0
Content-Type: Text/Plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I've heard this book talked about a lot. Is it suitable to mere math
mortals? I had enough trouble understanding how RSA worked :)
-Michael
> The history of DES (including the design of the sboxes) is in
> "Applied Cryptography", "The Code Book", and presumably many other
> crypto books. I recommend that you pick up a copy of The Code
> Book; it's an informative and enjoyable read.
>
> To be more specific, Applied Cryptography lists Differential
> Cryptanalysis as being public found in 1990. So, that puts the
> IBM researchers / NSA only 14 years ahead of the rest of the
> world. Good thing they decided to protect against the attack
> rather than weaken DES to it.
>
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack
_________________________________________________________________
http://fastmail.ca/ - Fast Free Web Email for Canadians
--------------Boundary-00=_T9AUABRTZ6EOO49D7TH0--
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3BA6C281.0001FF.04743>