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- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Motorola DVP Technology
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 21:33:25 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
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- References: <Bz0E9M.DMn@lila.com>
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- In article <Bz0E9M.DMn@lila.com> dorsey@lila.com (Bill Dorsey) writes:
- >[...] encrypted radios [using] DES encryption (presumably in ECB mode to
- >allow recovery from the occasional corrupt data).
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- All DES modes allow recovery from corrupt data. CBC is very good at it.
- CFB might have a problem if you lost count of the number of bytes, but
- there's no reason to use ECB.
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