RE: [iwar] Crypto Rumour?
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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 21:28:05 -0400
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Subject: RE: [iwar] Crypto Rumour?
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Tony,
Have you heard anymore, about this, I've been checking and I'm waiting for
an answer back from contacts if there is one.
Glenn
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Bartoletti [mailto:azb@llnl.gov]
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 2:10 PM
To: iwar@egroups.com
Subject: [iwar] Crypto Rumour?
This is from a thread on the IETF/PKIX mailing list.
Anyone care to comment (confirm/deny/clarify?)
____tony____
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I have heard a rumor that the '128-bit encryption' that Microsoft
is shipping with Windows 2000 has actually been tweaked in such a
way that it is only 128-bit when observed by a non-clued-in person,
but is rather 40-bit for the people who know how it has been designed.
In effect, rumor therefore has it that 88 bits out of the 128 are
set in such a way that it is extremely easy to find them for someone
who knows how. The French are supposed to have found this out, and
they are supposed to have been a little bit upset because of this fact.
I am not sure how much of this is actually the truth. The person
I received this information from might have confused this with the
silent "3DES -> DES" fallback in Windows that has been demonstrated
lately. Can anyone confirm or deny the above rumor?
Anyway. The bottom line is - I think people today are a little bit
crazy to use, and even buy, security software as executables without
any kind of access to the source code. It is plain stupid, and it
gives the country which supplied you with the binaries a perfect
weapon for the information wars that are due to ensue sooner or later.
The world is not all roses all the time. Remember the several-billion-
dollar deal which was lost by the European airplane manufacturer to
Boeing because the USA was eavesdropping on their conversations with
the purchaser?
[Tony: The alleged Echelon Connection]
Iraq, Vatican and several others have learned this lesson when they
bought black-box crypto machines from Crypto AG, only to find out
that the machine transmits the encryption key almost in plaintext
along with the encrypted message. Which, hence, was easily recoverable
by folks from the NSA and from the German intelligence agency.
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Tony Bartoletti 925-422-3881
Information Operations, Warfare and Assurance Center
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA 94551-9900
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