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Re: DES recertification?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donald E. Eastlake 3rd)
Wed Apr 22 11:22:47 1998
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:00:13 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee@cybercash.com>
To: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <199804220002.UAA07602@smb.research.att.com>
Don't know about DES but I understand that AES selection is expected to
take about two years.
Donald
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 19:59:38 -0400
> From: Steve Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
> To: cryptography@c2.net
> Subject: DES recertification?
>
> If memory serves correctly, DES was last recertified by NIST in 1993.
> That means it's due for re-examination again this year. Is anything
> happening? Have any notices appeared in the Federal Register? (I
> realize that NIST has asked for submissions for the AES. Is that
> intended to replace the formal DES re-examination procedure? While
> there are many good reasons to replace DES, I would expect that picking
> an AES will take some time, plus a fair amount of time afterwards for
> the civilian cryptographic community to try to pick it apart.)
>
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