Re: Are DES restriction even logically sound?

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From: PeterClaus Gutmann
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 07:04

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In <Bu5597.3x4@sneaky.lonestar.org> gordon@sneaky.lonestar.org (Gordon Burditt) writes:

>It is my understanding that a description of DES in text form is not
>restricted, as long as it is not a software implementation of DES.  Byte 
>Magazine already published one quite a few years back.  (I forget whether 
>there was a full software implementation included or not.  There probably 
>was, in something like 6800 assembly language.)

There was 6502 assembly language included.  Interestingly enough, no library
in New Zealand (as far as I could find out) has a copy of the two issues it
was published in, although issues on either side of the two were available
freely...... I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions :-)

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From: pgut1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (PeterClaus          Gutmann        )
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