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From: desj@brahms.Berkeley.EDU (David desJardins)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt
Subject: Re: VC2000 "Update"
Message-ID: <668@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: Thu, 8-Jan-87 16:16:57 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  8 16:16:57 1987
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In article <1207@frog.UUCP> john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software) writes:
>Some time ago, Shamir (I think) demonstrated that
>DES was untrustworthy by concocting a similar encryption scheme, showing it
>to people who examined it and decided that it was as secure as DES itself --
>then he showed them the trapdoor hidden in the tables.  Thus, the belief that
>DES _can_ have no trapdoor is undermined.

   This is, I believe, false.  It is true that many people have tried to do
this, but no such successful effort has been reported.

   -- David desJardins