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RE: Comments on MSG spec

1998-12-02 07:18:51
Blake:

        3.  Section 2.6, first sentence:  Is the reference to 
[DES] dangling? 
It would seem that one reference to tripleDES would be sufficient.

Not dangling -- [DES] tells you how to implement DES, [3DES] tells you how
to implement triple-DES, but not DES.

By the way, I think that the 3DES reference sucks (a 1979 IEEE Spectrum
article?).  Any suggestions?

Here are the best reference I can find:

3DES       American National Standards Institute.  ANSI X9.52-1998,
           Triple Data Encryption Algorithm Modes of Operation. 1998.

DES        American National Standards Institute.  ANSI X3.106, 
           "American National Standard for Information Systems - Data
           Link Encryption".  1983.

Russ

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