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Federal Computer Week has put the NSA critique of key recovery on its Web site: http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1998/0413/web-nsareport-4-14-1998.html See a related FCW article today about it at: http://www.fcw.com/pubs/fcw/1998/0413/web-nsacdt-4-14-1998.html The blacked out portions of the diagrams await decoding.
At 11:01 AM 4/15/98 -0800, Lee Tien wrote:
>Do we know how the report was acquired? It says "2/18/98 NSA, X3" I
>think X9 is a standards committee for banks, cf. NSA's comments re adoption
>of 3DES; is X3 as well? Is that where this came out? Or was it through a
>FOIA request or a leak?
I believe it was made public by the NSA.
Bruce
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