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- From: uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal)
- Subject: Re: Status of DES, or "Is the DES Standard PD?"
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- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 20:57:43 GMT
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- References: <1992Dec11.075845.27376@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> <1992Dec11.201151.145881@watson.ibm.com> <1gb7obINN3tp@gap.caltech.edu> <Bz98An.BLJ@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
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- In article <Bz98An.BLJ@dcs.ed.ac.uk>, pdc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Paul Crowley) writes:
- |> 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.
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- a) It's news to me, that NSA "supressed" RSA.
- b) If absolutely prohibiting any export of DES is "promoting"
- it - then our definitions of terms are indeed different.
- c) Some people consider DES too slow for routine encryption
- and seek maybe-less-secure-but-faster alternatives. What
- then about RSA? What but the key exchange is it good for?
- Encrypt my hard drive? Tape archive? Online digitized
- voice?
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- Regards,
- Uri. uri@watson.ibm.com
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