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What about the part where the NSA dropped the key size of DES from 128 to 54 so that it would not be resistant to brute force attacks. I vote the next link sho
by EthanHeilman 13y ago
What about the part where the NSA dropped the key size of DES from 128 to 54 so that it would not be resistant to brute force attacks.
I vote the next link should be the rumors of a backdoor in OpenBSD's IPSEC. http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/004235/fbi-alleged-to-have-backdoored-openbsds-ipsec-stack http://bsd.slashdot.org/story/10/12/15/004235/fbi-alleged-to...
- mpyne 13y agoI like your style on both counts! (Edit: I just looked up the 40-bit thing, you're right, I was confusing with stupid munitions laws)
- supergauntlet 13y agoI'm surprised we haven't seen posts comparing the NSA to the Gestapo yet.
- HarryHirsch 13y agoThe name of the high-ranking police official in the late Weimar Republic who investigated Hitler because he was considered a subversive by the then government, and who continued in his office after Hitler came to power, now investigating the Resistance, being ever faithful to what government there was, this name escapes me.
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- EthanHeilman 13y agoThe key size of DES is 56 bits that is expanded to 64 bits by the addition of a 8 bit checksum. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard