Nicolas Roumiantzeff wrote:
>
> But for the French authorities you would have to prove taht DES is a group.
>
> Beside, the 3-DES implementation used in SSL is not exactly a composition of
> 3 DES function (the initial and final seps of the DES algorithm are done
> only once instead of 3 times).
Errr ... that's coz they cancel each other out.
Cheers,
Ben.
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