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- From: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Status of DES, or "Is the DES Standard PD?"
- Message-ID: <Bz98An.BLJ@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 14:59:10 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.075845.27376@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> <1992Dec11.201151.145881@watson.ibm.com> <1gb7obINN3tp@gap.caltech.edu>
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- Reply-To: pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley)
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- I always assumed that the only reason the NSA could have for attempting
- to suppress RSA while promoting DES would be that they've got DES
- cracked, and they Know the Secret of the S-Boxes. Recent research seems
- to indicate that (1) the key is 56 bits because there's only 56 bits
- worth of security in the algorithm anyway, and (2) the NSA S-boxes are
- chosen to be more secure. If they genuinely don't have the scoop on
- DES, why should they promote it while suppressing RSA?
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