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- From: reuter@venice.sedd.trw.com (Joseph Reuter)
- Subject: Re: Enlarging key size of the DES algorithm
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.165012.10151@venice.sedd.trw.com>
- Keywords: DES, key size
- Sender: Joseph A. Reuter
- Organization: TRW Systems Engineering & Development Division, Carson, CA
- References: <6681@tuegate.tue.nl> <BzDp6F.6zn@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Dec17.205145.10511@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:50:12 GMT
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- The differential analysis results suggest to me that the DES transformations
- divide into approximately 2^47 equivalence classes. It does not seem at all
- obvious to me that using the S-box bits as a key would produce a system
- with 2^768 distinct equivalence classes. It does no good at all to have
- an enormous key space if many keys produce the same transformation.
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- Joseph A. Reuter, Wizard-in-Training
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