On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Sandy Harris wrote: > Single DES has been literally broken several times. No it hasnt. "broken" implies an exploit other than brute force is possible. Single DES is only weak because of its keylength. Brute force attacks work against ANY algorithm of short keylength. DES certainly isn't any weaker than any other cypher of the same keylength. -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
