1994-07-28 - DES Vulnerable, Why?

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From: KentBorg@aol.com
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-07-28 14:13:01 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 07:13:01 PDT

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From: KentBorg@aol.com
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 07:13:01 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: DES Vulnerable, Why?
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It seems the TLAs (in a weak moment) let slip that DES was getting old and
creaky and vulnerable.  The story is that that is what sent the TLAs off on
their search for a new encryption standard.  (Unfortunately, they got their
mission reversed and decided the need was to *read* plaintext not encrypt
it.)

My question: if triple-DES is so damn tough to break, what is wrong with DES?
 Triple-DES is a trivial variation on DES.

Is it likely that DES's frailities are not the ones we compute with all those
big numbers?

Given the public portions of DES's history, what DES weaknesses make sense?


-kb, the Kent who is 300+ emails behind due to a biz trip and a damp
notebook.


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