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by cryptonector
202 days ago
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Yes, NSA made DES stronger. After first making it weaker. IBM had wanted a 128-bit key, then they decided to knock that down to 64-bit (probably for reasons related to cost, this being the 70s), and NSA brought that down to 56-bit because hey! we need parity bits (we didn't). |
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