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IBM's original S-Boxes for DES?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicolai Moles-Benfell)
Thu Sep 30 11:47:01 2004

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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 21:07:10 +1200
From: Nicolai Moles-Benfell <nmol010@ec.auckland.ac.nz>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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Hi,

A number of sources state that the NSA changed the S-Boxes (and reduced the key
size) of IBM's original DES submission, and that these change were made to
strengthen the cipher against differential/linear/?? cryptanalysis.

Does anybody have a reference to, or have an electronic copy of these original
S-Boxes?

Nicolai.

[Moderator's note: Google for information on the original cipher,
called "Lucifer". --Perry]
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