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- From: markd@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Mark Diamond)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Triple DES
- Date: 19 Nov 1992 21:32:22 +0800
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- The question arose in a previous reply to this posting of whether
- triple, double or any other repeated DES encryption was stronger than a
- single encryption. The previous reply indicated that the question was
- still open. It is not open ... it has been settled and the results
- presented at CRYPTO 92.
-
- Essentially the question about the strength of double encryption is the
- same as the question about whether DES is or is not a group.
-
- If DES were a group then for two keys K1 and K2
-
- DES( DES(Plaintext, K1), K2) == DES(Plaintext, K3) for some
-
- K3 which presumably the eavesdropper is trying to discover ... the point
- being that they would not have to find K1 and K2, but only a kind of
- "combination" K3.
-
- The recently demonstrated fact that DES is *not* a group indicates that
- a double encryption *is* stronger than single encryption.
-