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From: pkenny1@ub.D.UMN.EDU (Pat "Hack #2" Kenny)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: DES info wanted
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Date: Wed, 6-May-87 14:42:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  6 14:42:56 1987
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Keywords: DES, uses other

I have written a DES program in pascal for a term project and I have
to do a talk about it soon and I would like to ask some questions for
anybody to respond to, thanks in advance.

1. How much is DES used and who uses it?
2. Does anybody really know what the numbers in the S-Boxes are and where
   they got them.
3. Where is the DES implemented? I heard about it being put into those
   instant cash machines, is that true?
4. Does anybody know about the DES and unix, I know they use it there, but
   how much did they change it?
5. What does the NSA know about the DES that we don't? Do they have a machine
   to crack it?
6. Are there any DES jokes or other names for DES?

   Thanks, any help would be helpful. 
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