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- From: pcl@ox.ac.uk (Paul C Leyland)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Status of DES, or "Is the DES Standard PD?"
- Message-ID: <PCL.92Dec15172152@rhodium.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 17:21:52 GMT
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- In-reply-to: uri@watson.ibm.com's message of 14 Dec 92 20:57:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.205743.129591@watson.ibm.com> uri@watson.ibm.com (Uri Blumenthal) writes:
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- 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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- Yes to all of these. You just have to get a real computer 8-)
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- Rather more seriously: multi-precise multiplication and division, the
- time-critical part of RSA-like systems, is getting quite fast these
- days. Check out what some of the latest DSP engines are capable of.
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- Paul
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