From: kentborg@world.std.com (Kent Borg)
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 13:15:15 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: DES Vulnerable, Why?
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[Tim said, roughly, that public actions to replace DES have not
revealed anything about what the NSA & Co. know about DES's
weaknesses.]

Which I guess is part of what I was driving at.

The other part of what I was driving at: DES is becoming crackable by
pure brute force.  Doesn't 3-DES solve that problem for a few orders
of magnatude?

If 3-DES is so simple a variation on DES, then what is wrong with DES
that 3-DES doesn't solve?  (Yes, it is slower in SW than IDEA--I am
talking security for the moment.)


-kb, the Kent who is leery of the new-fangled when the old seems so
easy to fix


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