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Article #2265Re: PGP technical question (Not a flame)
From: Bruce Schneier
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:53
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:53
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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
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Newsgroups: sci.crypt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!mcdchg!chinet!schneier From: schneier@chinet.chi.il.us (Bruce Schneier) Subject: Re: PGP technical question (Not a flame) Message-ID: <BzoqDA.Jwr@chinet.chi.il.us> Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX References: <168C413C13.UC445585@mizzou1.missouri.edu> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:53:33 GMT Lines: 22