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From: henkp@nikhefk.uucp (Henk Peek)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: A new data encrypition standard
Message-ID: <36@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 16:53:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 29 16:53:35 1986
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Keywords: DES
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Under the plan - National Security Decision Directieve 145 -
the security of both commercial and military information
systems in USA will be the responsibility of the National
Security Agency - the federal government's supersecret
intelligence and cryptographic organisation.
Directive 145, plans to supersede DES protocols with a
new standard that incorporates specialed key-variable
code-generating algorithms to create nearly tamper-proof
datacomm ICs. The first commercial development is the Harris
HS3447 Cypher 1, a CMOS chip.
NSA will no longer approve DES after 1988. The switch to
the new Comsec (Communications Security) chips will be
gradual.

Robert Rosenberg, Electronics, 3 feb 86, page 27-31
EDN, 3 apr 86, page 107

henk peek, henkp@nikhefk@mcvax