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From: don@allegra.UUCP (Don Mitchell)
Newsgroups: net.crypt
Subject: A Ticket on the Titanic
Message-ID: <4951@allegra.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 14:04:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: allegra.4951
Posted: Fri Aug 16 14:04:31 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:45:45 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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The chairman of the ANSI committee on cryptography has announced that
the NSA and NBS have withdrawn support of the DES standard.  ANSI will
not recommend DES as an international standard.  They will probably
soon withdraw support for DES as a national standard.

This is undoubtedly a reaction to Shamir's discoveries about the
S-boxes.

Rumor has it, the NSA wants to give black boxes to companies that need
encryption, but the algorithms will be secret.