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From: hes@ncsu.UUCP (Henry Schaffer)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: NSDD 145 and the end of DES?
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Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 22:33:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 22:33:09 1986
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<>The Sept. '84 National Security Decision Directive 145 (signed
by Pres. Reagan) gave the NSA the responsibility for both commercial
and military information systems.  The NSA says it won't approve the
DES algorithm when it comes up for review as a federal standard in
1988.

<>The NSA is working to have new methods developed for its Comsec
(communications security) program.  Only companies which NSA qualifies
can develop and sell the new methods/devices, and they can only
provide applications information and sample parts with NSA approval.

<>I read about this in a Special Report in the Feb. 3, '86 issue
of Electronics (pp. 27-31.)  The NSA seems to have been given
broad powers affecting the civilian (commercial) sector.

--henry schaffer  n c state univ