Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics, and Chip Design

by the Electronic Frontier Foundation

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The test-file, bootstrap, and bootstrap2 listings in Chapter 4 are Copyright ©1997 by Network Associates, Inc. These listings may be reproduced in whole or in part without payment of royalties. Chapter 10, Architectural Considerations for Cryptanalytic Hardware, is Copyright © 1996 by the authors, Ian Goldberg and David Wagner. It may not be reproduced without the permission of the authors, who can be reached at iang@cs.berkeley.edu and daw@cs.berkeley.edu. Chapter 11, Efficient DES Key Search: An Update, is Copyright © 1997 by Entrust Technologies. It may be reproduced in whole or in part without payment of royalties. Chapter 9, Breaking One Million DES Keys, is Copyright © 1986. Work done at the University of Leuven, Belgium, and supported by the NFWO, Belgium. It may not be reproduced without the permission of the author, who can be reached at desmedt@cs.uwm.edu.

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