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Something that was always fishy...

Posted Aug 19, 2004 15:10 UTC (Thu) by mmarsh (subscriber, #17029)
In reply to: Something that was always fishy... by ncm
Parent article: Crypto researchers abuzz over flaws (News.com)

NSA wanted the shorter key length so that error-correction bits could be added. They didn't expect DES to be made public, from my understanding, and were somewhat upset when NBS released the DES specification.

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