Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!mcvax!ukc!stc!concurrent!stl!dww From: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright) Newsgroups: net.crypt Subject: Re: DES_PC posted to mod.sources, but canceled Message-ID: <314@stl.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Oct-86 14:50:13 EDT Article-I.D.: stl.314 Posted: Tue Oct 7 14:50:13 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Oct-86 22:40:31 EDT References: <240@mirror.UUCP> <1111@hoptoad.uucp> <275@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk> Reply-To: dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright) Organization: STL,Harlow,UK. Lines: 15 In article <275@stracs.cs.strath.ac.uk> jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid) writes: >The US ban on the "export" of DES algorithms is absurd. A competent programmer >with access to the official standard could write a DES program ... For example, the London company "JPY Associates", who wrote a very efficient version for the PDP-11 under RSX, and now offer a native mode VAX version too. Of course it isn't actually "DES", because the DES standard says that the algorithm MUST be implemented in hardware only. It is merely completely compatible with the standard (:-)). -- Regards, David Wright STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, U.K. dww@stl.stc.co.uk ...seismo!mcvax!ukc!stl PSI%234237100122::DWW