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  2. Newsgroups: sci.crypt,alt.security
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!mars.caps.maine.edu!gandalf!gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU!who
  4. From: who@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (William H. Owen)
  5. Subject: Re: Are DES restriction even logically sound?
  6. Message-ID: <1992Sep7.225615.18289@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
  7. Sender: news@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (The paper boy)
  8. Organization: University of Maine Department of Computer Science
  9. References: <1992Sep5.164646.21443@uwm.edu> <Bu5597.3x4@sneaky.lonestar.org>
  10. Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:56:15 GMT
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  14.     There is a nice version of DES in pascal included in "Computer Networks"
  15. by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Anyone have a version of DES with a 128 bit key size? Or
  16. alternative choices for S-boxes? Or just maybe the NSA doesn't want you to crypt
  17. something that the gov't can't uncrypt.
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