Re: The Cost of Snakeoil (was Re: John Gilmore and the Great Internet Snake Drive)

Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:50:44 +0100

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silly@bsi.menlo-park.ca.us wrote:

> I had the same question. Nx2DES (even number of rounds) is vunerable
> to a "Meet-in-the-middle" attack.

o.k. Then take n be odd (or perhaps eventually odd prime, if that
turned out to be beneficial). My feeling is that since hardware is now
very cheap and fast n can be a bit larger than 3.

M. K. Shen

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