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From: wcs@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (Bill Stewart 908-949-0705 erebus.att.com!wcs)
Subject: Re: Possible Insecurity of DES-Encrypted Text
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs Random Organization Name Generator
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1992 03:34:46 GMT
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In-Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu's message of 21 Jan 92 13: 57:24 GMT
References: <3242@wet.UUCP> <TED.92Jan18111651@lole.nmsu.edu>
	<1992Jan18.213246.52011@cs.cmu.edu>
	<1992Jan19.070914.14577@qualcomm.com>
	<1992Jan21.085724.14885@ms.uky.edu>
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In article <1992Jan21.085724.14885@ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
   karn@chicago.qualcomm.com (Phil Karn) writes:
   |Maybe this guy would be happier if he replaced DES with an encryption
   |program that XORed his data with a hardware random number generator.
   |He could then boast that his revolutionary new encryption scheme not
   |only has ideal ciphertext statistics, but it is also completely
   |unbreakable by anyone (including the intended recipient...)

   ...and the patent office would probably issue a patent for it.

I've got this great idea using 2**N monkeys pounding on ASR33 Teletypes...

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				Pray for peace;      Bill
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