Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!udel!new From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: DES Busting--Let's See Some Pro Message-ID: <10839@louie.udel.EDU> Date: 14 Mar 89 19:29:07 GMT References: <2151@water.waterloo.edu> <135900004@cdp> Sender: usenet@udel.EDU Reply-To: new@udel.EDU (Darren New) Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 7 Rather than inventing another and greater cryptography system with longer keys, hoping to avoid whatever NSA did to DES, why not just go back to the original Lucifer specification? If NSA actually did simplify DES for their own purposes, this would make great sense. In addition, there is probably already much study completed about the security of Lucifer. - Darren New