NIST promised "DES will be reviewed again before the end of 98"

Mark Tillotson (markt@harlequin.co.uk)
Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:06:15 +0100

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>From one of the early AES press-releases.

| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NIST 97-01
| Jan. 2, 1997

| "... First approved in 1977, DES will be reviewed again before the end
| of 1998."

That review document currently being hastily re-written, perhaps??

| "Since DES is used widely and many organizations have considerable
| investments in an installed base of encryption equipment, NIST notes in the
| Federal Register that "a multi-year transition period will be necessary
| to move toward any new encryption standard and that DES will continue to
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| be of sufficient strength for many applications." NIST will host public
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| workshops and consult with industry, standards organizations, government
| agencies and others to ensure that any transition is smooth."

Smooth? Yeah right! Minimize the window of vulnerability to only a
few years.

__Mark
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