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- Path: sparky!uunet!watson.ibm.com
- From: jbs@watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <19921119.162546.47@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 19:24:51 EST
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Triple des
- Lines: 10
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- William Hugh Murphy said (regarding triple des encryption)
- >If you were not trying to solve the special problem of backward
- >compatibility, you would likely use two encrypt steps. This would
- >give the same protection and only double the time.
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- Actually there is a "meet in the middle" attack against double
- des encryption which takes time 2**56 (albeit using space 2**56). So
- far as I know, there is no similar way of attacking IBM's triple des
- scheme. So in this respect at least the triple scheme is stronger.
- James B. Shearer
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