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From: jmcarli@PacBell.COM (Jerry M. Carlin)
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Subject: Re: password encoding
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Date: 7 Jun 91 17:56:07 GMT
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In article <55740@nigel.ee.udel.edu> v882087@si.hhs.nl writes:
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>It seems that Dod has included a "bug" in the DES algorithm such that they
>can reverse the DES algorithm...

This has been claimed a number of times but no proof has been submitted.
The conversations in sci.crypt lead me to believe this rumor is not true.

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