Weak DES keys

Karl Fox <karl@Ascend.COM> Fri, 12 September 1997 19:59 UTC

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Michael C. Richardson writes:
>   If we return fail, then I'd say that we just
> pretend we never did anything and try again. That works, is algorithm
> independant, and removes all weak key checks from the key manager.

Another nice thing about this approach is that not only is it hard to
get wrong, even those who do get it wrong will still interoperate.
-- 
Karl Fox, servant of God, employee of Ascend Communications
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