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VoicePGP cracked in 10 minutes?...

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NODE f0dae464VoicePGP cracked in 10 minutes?...
Hi all,

I heard a rumor hear in Ctl. Tx. that the VoicePGP project was cracked in the
last couple of days in approx. 10 minutes. Anyone have any info on this other
than one of those wild rumors that occur?

Thanks and take care.
NODE bfa19038Re: VoicePGP cracked in 10 minutes?...
On Tue, 31 Jan 1995, root wrote:

> I heard a rumor hear in Ctl. Tx. that the VoicePGP project was cracked in the
> last couple of days in approx. 10 minutes. Anyone have any info on this other
> than one of those wild rumors that occur?

	Well, uh, yeah.

	VoicePGP hasn't been completed yet, much less released. If it's 
been cracked, that's very ... suprising.

	VoicePGP uses Diffie-Hellman and 3DES with three independent 
subkeys. If anyone has come up with an attack on D-H or 3DES that works 
in ten minutes, I'd love to hear about it, as I'm sure the rest of you would.

	Call Security was cracked by Don Coppersmith [if you don't know who 
he is, shame on you: he led the IBM Lucifer/DES team] about a day after the 
announcement on sci.crypt. Call Security != VoicePGP.

Michael
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Michael Handler                                         <grendel@netaxs.com>
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NODE 9ea7c2c8Re: VoicePGP cracked in 10 minutes?...
root says:
> I heard a rumor hear in Ctl. Tx. that the VoicePGP project was cracked in the
> last couple of days in approx. 10 minutes. Anyone have any info on this other
> than one of those wild rumors that occur?

Considering that VoicePGP hasn't even been released, this is
fascinating news. Perhaps the same team could work next on cracking
things that haven't even been invented yet.

.pm
NODE 754cb856Re: VoicePGP cracked in 10 minutes?...
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I heard a rumor hear in Ctl. Tx. that the VoicePGP project was cracked in the
> last couple of days in approx. 10 minutes. Anyone have any info on this other
> than one of those wild rumors that occur?
> 
> Thanks and take care.
> 
Nope. That was "Call Security" which used something called Quick Public
Key (QPK?) that was apparently homemade.