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- From: shri@freal.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: DES .. and these days ??
- Message-ID: <54546@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- Date: 9 Oct 92 17:43:23 GMT
- Sender: root@dime.cs.umass.edu
- Reply-To: shri@legato.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar)
- Organization: UMass, Amherst, MA 01002 + Temporal Sys & Comp Net, Bombay, India
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- Hi,
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- Curious ...
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- Now with DES having been "decertified", and newer NIST certified
- single key encryption scheme not yet around any corner ...
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- What encryption scheme is the most popular in ...
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- 1. Financial sector, such as Inter Bank Transactions ?
- 2. On networks like SWIFT ?
- 3. Trade and commerce, such as between stock brokers and
- their major clients ?
- 4. Within Private Corps, and also within (branches of) same banks ?
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- Is DES still the most prevalant method, simple because of a large
- installed base already existing ?
-
- (I am new to this group, and the subject, tho' aware of the issues
- in cryptography, but new to the state-of-art ... I will be grateful
- for all answers, E-mail or post here.)
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- Also, the new NIST DSS standard .. is it seeing any field use
- are any commercial/legally-binding application using (too early ?)
- or intending to use it ?
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- Also related issue, ...
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- with so much hue and cry being raised today over privacy issues
- in public telecom, and tapping of cellular phones .. I wonder
- if some group is looking into adaptation of any digital encryption
- schemes, esp. two key schemes for cellular phone use, esp the
- newer digital cellular phone standards.
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- One would not need a "very strong" encryption scheme here, but it
- surely must be very cheap to implement in $100 phones in a competitive
- market. And if it is a two key scheme, so much the better.
-
- -- shrikumar ( shri@legato.cs.umass.edu, shri@iucaa.ernet.in )
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