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- From: cme@ellisun.sw.stratus.com (Carl Ellison)
- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Real question re DES vs IDEA cipher
- Message-ID: <1ho576INNpkj@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 00:13:26 GMT
- References: <1hcp41INNdi4@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <BzsH0G.9yz@chinet.chi.il.us>
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- In article <BzsH0G.9yz@chinet.chi.il.us> schneier@chinet.chi.il.us (Bruce Schneier) writes:
- >
- >I am more confident with triple-DES (112-bit key), but that takes a whole
- >lot longer than IDEA.
-
- I, too, am more confident with triple-DES -- but why call it only 112 bits?
-
- If each of the 3 DES stages does its own CBC and has its own IV, then
- each stage has (56+64) bits of key -- so the ensemble has 3*120 = 360 bits
- of key.
-
- Meanwhile, there's still my favorite:
-
- compress|des|tran|des|tran|des
-
- (where tran was posted here a week or two ago)
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