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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: UNIX-like crypt function
Keywords: crypt unix ibm-pc
Message-ID: <5928@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 22 Aug 89 00:28:38 GMT
References: <855@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl> <2152@netcom.UUCP> <17369@ut-emx.UUCP> <310@cs.columbia.edu> <5927@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
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In article <5927@pt.cs.cmu.edu> I wrote:
}Besides, the DES algorithm has been written up any number of times in 
}easy-to-get publications....

A quick check of our library's holdings revealed four hits (trimmed versions
reproduced below).  Obviously not too secret if I can just walk into the 
library and check out four books on the DES.

  COPY ONE  E&S-COMP       510.78452 U58d c.1
  TITLE     Data encryption standard / U. S. Department of Commerce, National
            Bureau of Standards.
            FIPS pub 46.
  CITATION  Washington, D.C. : NBS ; Springfield, Va. : for sale by the National
            Technical Information Service, 1977. 18 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.


  COPY ONE  SEI-BK         QA76.9 .A25K19 c.2
  AUTHOR    Katzan, Harry.
  TITLE     The standard data encryption algorithm / Harry Katzan, Jr.
  CITATION  New York : PBI, c1977. viii, 134 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  NOTES     "A Petrocelli book." Includes index.


  COPY ONE  E&S-BK         510.7854 C742c c.1
  CONFERENCE
            Conference on Computer Security and the Data Encryption Standard,
            Gaithersburg, Md., 1977.
  TITLE     Computer security and the data encryption standard : proceedings of
            the Conference on Computer Security and the Data Encryption Standard
            held at the National Bureau of Standards in Gaithersburg, Maryland,
            on February 15, 1977 /
            Computer science & technology
            NBS special publication ; 500-27
  CITATION  Washington : The Bureau : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt.
            Print. Off., 1978. viii, 125 p. ; 26cm.


  COPY ONE  E&S-BK         510.7854 G14v c.1
  AUTHOR    Gait, Jason.
  TITLE     Validating the correctness of hardware implementations of the NBS
            Data Encryption Standard / Jason Gait.
            Computer science & technology
            NBS special publication ; 500-20
  CITATION  Washington : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards :
            for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977. iii,
            40 p. 28 cm.
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