i was joking about the history of the s boxes, originally designed by ibm but with substantial classified input from nsa.
suspicious people believed the s box changes (and the reduced key length) that was adopted was intended to weaken des, or make it more brute-forceable by the nsa. the designers deny it. the parallels between that situation and this should be evident. On Dec 16, 2010, at 4:26 AM, Abuse007 wrote: > > Changing the s-boxes in DES (and therefore Triple DES as well) would break > comparability with other implementations as it would no longer decrypt the > same as a standard implementation. for more you can see, among others http://www.wordiq.com/definition/DES#NSA.27s_involvement_in_the_design _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
