From: ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} <dformosa@cit.nepean.uws.edu.au>
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:36:32 -0700 (PDT)
To: bill payne <billp@nmol.com>
Subject: Re: NSA and crypto algorithms
In-Reply-To: <359934DE.1B4@nmol.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980701133329.165B-100000@shirley>
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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, bill payne wrote:

> It is EASY to make mistakes when designing crypto algorithms.

[...]

> My suprise at gaining access to NSA crypto algorithms was how
> simple they were.

The second stament follows logicly from the first.  Simple algorithums are
easyer to analise for mistates.


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