Breaking the NSA

Dave Horsfall dave at esi.COM.AU
Thu Dec 8 18:02:43 PST 1994


On Thu, 8 Dec 1994, Ian Farquhar wrote:

> I am told that a similar trick was tried by some people back in the
> early 1980's, when they were trying to figure out if the NSA could
> indeed break DES.  There was no official response to these attempts.

Or then again, maybe the people involved suddenly had the last 10 years
or so of their tax returns scrutinised; maybe they were denied social
benefits; etc.

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