[Am-info] NIST SAYS DES ENCRYPTION 'INADEQUATE'

[Fred Miller]

NIST SAYS DES ENCRYPTION 'INADEQUATE'
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Posted July 29, 2004 2:13 PM Pacific Time

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing
that the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a popular encryption algorithm,
lose its certification for use in software products sold to the
government.

http://newsletter.infoworld.com/t?ctl=7DE16C:1F5C3D3

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