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From: duerr@motcid.UUCP (Michael L. Duerr)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Encrypting your data to keep it private
Message-ID: <4579@apricot30.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 91 19:25:26 GMT
References: <14474@hoptoad.uucp>
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From article <14474@hoptoad.uucp>, by gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore):
> It's still 100% legal to use encryption in this "free"
> country.  I encourage you to use it often to protect your privacy.
> (PS: don't use the Unix "crypt" command though - even I can break it.
> Use DES, or Khufu, or RSA, or one of the other cryptosystems that are
> not publicly known to be breakable.)

Is DES Safe?  I vaguely recall a comment that a ( very expensive ) machine
exists that can crack it in about 10 minutes ...  I also seem to recall
that the length of the key was cut in half, at the urging 
of the NSA.  Can anyone verify this?