Re: FLAW FOUND IN PROPOSED ENCRYPTION STANDARD (fwd)

Lloyd Wood (L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk)
Thu, 9 Apr 1998 20:42:08 +0100 (BST)

I've never heard of the University of Norway. Hardly surprising, since
despite having a population of less than London, Norway does have a
number of universities. Anyway...

http://sunsite.ust.hk/dblp/db/indices/a-tree/k/Knudsen:Lars_R=.html

Formerly

http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~knudsen/

now

http://www.ii.uib.no/~larsr/

That's University of Bergen to us; I fail to see why the NYT can't say
"Norway's University of Bergen".

L.

They'd probably say 'British Navy', too.

> Resent-Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 14:44:10 -0700
> Resent-From: Rohit Khare <rohit@bordeaux.ics.uci.edu>
> Resent-To: FoRK@xent.ics.uci.edu
>
> An ultra-strong version of the proposed U.S. data encryption standard
> knows as Triple D.E.S., which is intended for use in adding
> protection to the world's electronic financial transactions, can be
> weakened because of a flaw discovered by Eli Biham of Israel's
> Technion institution and Lars Knudsen at the University of Norway.
> Because of the discovery, the adoption of the proposed standard is
> being postponed by the American National Standards
> Institute. (New York Times 31 Mar 98)

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