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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: publication status of DES algorithm / NSA
Message-ID: <7343@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 25 Feb 88 10:54:44 GMT
References: <934@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> <770@entropy.ms.washington.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: DES NSA publication intelligence

In article <770@entropy.ms.washington.edu> martin@entropy.ms.washington.edu (Don Martin) writes:
>A book that is highly recomded in spite of the poor 
>implemetation of DES ( 1 bit per integer ).

Why do you consider that a poor implementation decision?
It's the way I would have done it.  Packed bits would be
too slow.