DES Vulnerable, Why?
Kent Borg
kentborg at world.std.com
Thu Jul 28 13:15:15 PDT 1994
[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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