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Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Tue, 28 Jul 1998 11:12:14 +0100
William H. Geiger III wrote:
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> In <006e01bdb9bd$728c5980$> In <006e01bdb9bd$728c5980$84004bca@home>, on 07/27/98
> at 06:59 PM, "Enzo Michelangeli" <em@who.net> said:
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> >You may have a look at the classics: e.g., Applied Cryptography. DSA has
> >been long suspected of harbouring backdoors, having been designed by NSA,
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> Yeh and the same group has been suspecting that there are back doors in
> DES for the same reasons and no one has yet to find one after all these
> years.
An ideal crypto algorithm should be easily understandable by the
average person (i.e. not exclusively by the experts) and with all
design principles clearly and fully laid open. DES is certainly
not such a one. As to whether one can trust third persons one should
read the ACM Turing Award Lecture by K. Thompson in Comm. ACM 27 (1984),
also available in
http://www.acm.org/classics/sep95/.
I learned very early not to blindly trust other people, see my
signature below.
M. K. Shen
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