1994-09-28 - 3DES

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From: pstemari@bismark.cbis.com (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1994-09-28 21:26:46 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 14:26:46 PDT

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From: pstemari@bismark.cbis.com (Paul J. Ste. Marie)
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 94 14:26:46 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: 3DES
Message-ID: <9409282126.AA00174@focis.sda.cbis.COM>
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Quick question.  There's a brief mention in Applied Cryptography that
triple DES uses:

	Eabc(x) = Ea(Db(Ec(x)))

as opposed to:

	Eabc(x) = Ea(Eb(Ec(x)))

in order to preserve some symmetry properties.  Can anyone give a
better explanation?





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