Re: [Full-disclosure] Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC

[mark seiden <mis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

i was joking about the history of the s boxes, originally designed by ibm but
with substantial classified input from nsa.

suspicious people believed the s box changes (and the reduced key length) that
was adopted was intended to weaken des, or make it more brute-forceable by the 
nsa.

the designers deny it.  

the parallels between that situation and this should be evident.

On Dec 16, 2010, at 4:26 AM, Abuse007 wrote:
> 
> Changing the s-boxes in DES (and therefore Triple DES as well) would break 
> comparability with other implementations as it would no longer decrypt the 
> same as a standard implementation.

for more you can see, among others

http://www.wordiq.com/definition/DES#NSA.27s_involvement_in_the_design
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