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- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- From: Owen.Lewis@purplet.demon.co.uk (Owen Lewis)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!purplet!Owen.Lewis
- Subject: Re: DES (Was: Re: 800MHz
- Organization: FidoNet node 2:252/305 - The Purple Tentacle, Reading
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 15:24:00 +0000
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- -=> Quoting Steven Bellovin to All <=-
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- SB> (b) There have been persistent rumors that NSA sabotaged DES. No one
- SB> has ever produced any *evidence*, as opposed to likelihood theories.
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- Another "likelihood theory":
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- What first world government permits the use of DES for the protection
- of classified material? Does the US government? I believe not.
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- And while we are discussing theories, I believe James Bamforth, the NSA
- watcher, went on record some time ago with a claim that the cost to the US
- taxpayer for breaking each DES ciphertext is $56. Can anyone supply the
- assumptions from which he must have made this extrapolation?
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- .. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
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