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There are people worried that 3DES is vulnerable to attacks other
than brute force.

At 10:13 PM 7/15/99 -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote:
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>On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Bruce Schneier wrote:
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>> This still makes no sense to me.  There are so many things to
>> worry about wrt an IPSec implementation, so many things that can
>> compromise security if they are not done correctly, that making
>> sure there is a backup to triple-DES seems like a collossal waste
>> of time.  It's like putting a mile-high stake in the ground and
>> hoping the enemy runs right into it, instead of trying to build a
>> wall.
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>I am having trouble believing 3DES is going to broken anytime soon,
>but then I am not a cryptographer and up on current events. Therefore,
>I believe that a back-up cipher will be caught in regular maintenance
>cycles and the whole thing a non-issue, but I've been wrong many times
>before. :)
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>I ask what is going on here folks? This whole 3DES thing seems like
>FUD, which isn't typical IETF behaviour. What is it I don't know?
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