Labels:text | black and white | paper | document OCR: 1000 The NSA, of course, couldn't be expected to have much interest in codes that it could not break, and a 200 2000 good many critics complained that letting the NSA work on the DES was like putting the fox on sentry duty around the hen house. Their uneasiness grew when the NSA persuaded 30 70001 IBM, which developed the winning algorithm, to withhold the working papers used to develop it. The 4.0 400 4.000 NSA insisted that this was only a security precau- tion in the best interests of all users, but it looked to many as if the government was simply trying to lock up the algorithm's mathematical roots. When computer scientists tried to publish papers suggesting that the new DES was breakable, the 60 600 6000 NSA tried to classify their work. One of the agency's employees, a man who once ...
