home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!charnel!rat!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!bu.edu!transfer.stratus.com!ellisun.sw.stratus.com!cme
- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: NSA recommendations?
- Message-ID: <1ejat4INN76n@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 18:31:00 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.193520.8206@netcom.com>
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
- Lines: 45
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ellisun.sw.stratus.com
-
- In article <1992Nov19.193520.8206@netcom.com> strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight) writes:
- >
- >Does anyone know if the NSA is making any current recommendations to
- >U.S. businesses who wish to transmit economically sensitive
- >non-defense information to their agents in countries which: a) might
- >be considered economically hostile (or at least competitive); b) are
- >well endowed with communications intelligence equipment and
- >technology.
-
-
- Check out TIME magazine, May 28, 1990, page 50
-
- "When 'Friends' Become Moles"
-
- (my copy was c/o Cylink -- part of their sales material, for obvious
- reasons)
-
- It doesn't answer your question. I have seen no specific recommendation
- on cryptosystems by NSA. I'd be surprised if they would say anything
- like that.
-
-
-
- Richard Outerbridge in Cryptologia a while ago was recommending triple
- DES for all financial transactions. I would second that recommendation
- (pref -- in CBC mode
-
- encr(k1,i1,decr(k2,i2,encr(k3,i3,datum)))
-
- ), which provides 360 bits of key. If the CBC is made an option, then
- this can be turned into what others call double DES or single DES
- by proper choice of keys.
-
- The CBC options would have to be:
-
- a. off (no IV)
- b. around the whole block of DESs (one IV only)
- c. around each of the three DESs (three IVs, as shown above)
-
-
- --
- -- <<Disclaimer: All opinions expressed are my own, of course.>>
- -- Carl Ellison cme@sw.stratus.com
- -- Stratus Computer Inc. M3-2-BKW TEL: (508)460-2783
- -- 55 Fairbanks Boulevard ; Marlborough MA 01752-1298 FAX: (508)624-7488
-