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From: bill@cosi.UUCP (Bill Michaelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: NBS Encryption/Decryption Pacakge for IBM MVS or VM
Summary: NBS Standards
Keywords: NBS Encryption Decryption DES MVS VM
Message-ID: <236@cosi.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 88 20:19:25 GMT
References: <12454685712024@OSU-20.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.EDU>
Organization: COS, Inc., Lawrenceville, NJ
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In article <12454685712024@OSU-20.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.EDU>, DEBULA-R@OSU-20.IRCC.OHIO-STATE.EDU (debula) writes:
> Does anyone out there in NetLand know of a Public Domain (or inexpensive)
> DES (Encryption/Decryption) package which adheres to NBS standards?  We
> need a version for MVS & VM, but MVS is definitely the more critical of the
> two (we have tried to port a UNIX DES package written in C over to IBM C

I may be mistaken about this, but I believe that the NBS standard related
to DES says that it must be implemented in LSI chips.  That is, if it is
"standard" it ain't just software.  Why do you require somehting that is
"standard"?

Bring on the flames!  I love 'em!

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