don@allegra.UUCP (Don Mitchell) (08/16/85)
The chairman of the ANSI committee on cryptography has announced that the NSA and NBS have withdrawn support of the DES standard. ANSI will not recommend DES as an international standard. They will probably soon withdraw support for DES as a national standard. This is undoubtedly a reaction to Shamir's discoveries about the S-boxes. Rumor has it, the NSA wants to give black boxes to companies that need encryption, but the algorithms will be secret.
wilde@apollo.uucp (Scott Wilde) (08/23/85)
>not recommend DES as an international standard. They will probably >soon withdraw support for DES as a national standard. > >This is undoubtedly a reaction to Shamir's discoveries about the >S-boxes. Could someone enlighten me as to the nature of these discoveries?