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- Subject: Re: Are DES restriction even logically sound?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.070437.6447@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- From: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (PeterClaus Gutmann )
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 07:04:37 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.164646.21443@uwm.edu> <Bu5597.3x4@sneaky.lonestar.org>
- Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland
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- In <Bu5597.3x4@sneaky.lonestar.org> gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt) writes:
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- >It is my understanding that a description of DES in text form is not
- >restricted, as long as it is not a software implementation of DES. Byte
- >Magazine already published one quite a few years back. (I forget whether
- >there was a full software implementation included or not. There probably
- >was, in something like 6800 assembly language.)
-
- There was 6502 assembly language included. Interestingly enough, no library
- in New Zealand (as far as I could find out) has a copy of the two issues it
- was published in, although issues on either side of the two were available
- freely...... I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions :-)
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