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- From: schneier@chinet.chi.il.us (Bruce Schneier)
- Subject: Re: PGP technical question (Not a flame)
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- References: <168C413C13.UC445585@mizzou1.missouri.edu>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:53:33 GMT
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- In article <168C413C13.UC445585@mizzou1.missouri.edu> UC445585@mizzou1.missouri.edu (John M. Kelsey) writes:
- > Why did PGP change from bassomatic to IDEA? Where can I find references
- >to IDEA? (It's Swiss?)
-
- X. Lai and J. Massey, "A Proposal for a New Block Encryption Standard,"
- Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of Eurocrypt 90, Springer-Verlag, 1991,
- pp. 389-404.
-
- X. Lai, J. Massey, and S. Murphy, "Markov Ciphers and Differential
- Cryptanalysis," Advances in Cryptology: Proceedings of Eurocrypt 91, Springer-
- Verlag, 1991, pp. 17-38.
-
- X. Lai and J. Massey, "Hash Functions Based on Block Ciphers," Advances in
- Cryptology: Proceedings of Eurocrypt 92, Springer-Verlag, to appear.
-
- X. Lai, "On the Design and Security of Block Ciphers," ETH Series in
- Information Processing, Volume 1, Hartung-Gorre Verlag, Konstanz, 1992.
-
- The fifth reference is best, but very hard to get. The third reference is
- also good, albeit much shorter. Source code for IDEA is in PGP.
-
- Bruce
-