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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, 12 Jan 1993 18:27:00 +0000
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- -=> Quoting Jim Mccoy to All <=-
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- JM> In all the various conspiracy
- JM> theories and other guesses regarding DES and the NSA, it should be
- JM> noted that DES was at one time used for secure encryptin of files for
- JM> some branches of the government (the "standard" in DES... :) and was
- JM> decertified for this role as scheduled. Few ciphers will last forever.
- JM> In time even the 1024 bit public keys people consider secure now will
- JM> be crackable for $56.
- JM> jim
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- I'm sure your right, Jim, even if one Hebrew crypt stood up for
- over two thousand years. But electronic computers have only been around
- for the last fifty. Almost takes the fun out of things, doesn't it?
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- Owen
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