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Re: Abit's SecureIDE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Honig)
Tue Aug 26 16:48:43 2003
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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:02:44 -0700
To: bear <bear@sonic.net>, Mads Rasmussen <mads@opencs.com.br>
From: David Honig <dahonig@cox.net>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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At 03:55 PM 8/22/03 -0700, bear wrote:
>>"40-bit DES (US Data Encryption Standard) is adequate for general users"
>
>Interesting. Can these chips be usefully cascaded?
Why would you want to? You can do a better cipher in an
FPGA very cheaply.. eg 3DES..
You can cascade horses to pull your carriage faster,
but you'll do better with a gas engine..
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