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> It's wise to impute shady motives to US government encryption efforts in light of probable DES skulduggery... Huh? Didn't DES use NSA-provided unexplained m
by tablespoon 5y ago
> It's wise to impute shady motives to US government encryption efforts in light of probable DES skulduggery...
Huh? Didn't DES use NSA-provided unexplained magic numbers that many people were highly skeptical of, but actually made it more secure against an attack that was not publicly known?
- er4hn 5y agoThe NSA does a lot of things, many of them in opposition to other internal departments. The problem is that you don't know the agenda of each team there, sometimes for decades.
- rightbyte 5y agoYe it is kinda confusing having a spy agency also be the domestic data protection agency.
- notreallyserio 5y agoI bet they have pretty epic red/blue action, though.
- goalieca 5y agoDES also has parity bits believe to make it brute forceable. 56-bits of strength instead of the full 64