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List:       firewalls-gc
Subject:    Re: Re[2]: Encryption Technology
From:       Julian Assange <proff () suburbia ! net>
Date:       1996-05-30 7:00:13
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> ??  DES has been proven to be *not* a group.  There was a paper in
> CRYPTO '92 by Campbell and Wiener on this.  And even if it were, 3DES
> uses decryption as the second pass, precisely to avoid this problem
> (this is, of course, from back when it wasn't known whether or not DES
> was a group).

You are right. I slipped a 'not'. Conclusion is still the same though ;)

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 the approval of their own conscience."    -   C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ 
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