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From: mitra@cdp.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: DES Busting--Let's See Some Pro
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Date: 13 Mar 89 16:21:00 GMT
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Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!mitra    Mar 13 08:21:00 1989


As I understood it DES was artificially reduced in complexity by the NSA
so that they could crack it and no-one else - this was supposed to 
be the reason that they objected to it's implimintation in software 
cos the complexity might then be increased. If this is true cant we go
to a larger key or larger whatever to increase the complexity beyond
commonly available machines (and ideally the NSA!) again.