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Re: Draft FIPS 46-3 Up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dianelos Georgoudis)
Thu Jan 21 21:42:50 1999
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:24:47 -0600
From: Dianelos Georgoudis <dianelos@tecapro.com>
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This FIPS defines 3DES en EDE mode with three different DES keys. Apart from
the fact that when used with identical keys the EDE mode works as single DES,
is there any advantage of this mode compared to the more "natural" EEE mode?
On Wednesday, January 20, 1999 15:52:23 -0500 you wrote:
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>Jim Foti at NIST has put the Draft FIPS 46-3 at:
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> http://csrc.nist.gov/fips/dfips46-3.pdf (209K)
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>We offer an HTML version:
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> http://jya.com/dfips46-3.htm (49K + 35K images)
>
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