Comment by themafia
4 days ago
The NSA also wanted a 48 bit implementation which was sufficiently weak to brute force with their power. The industry and IBM initially wanted 64 bit. IBM compromised and gave us 56 bit.
4 days ago
The NSA also wanted a 48 bit implementation which was sufficiently weak to brute force with their power. The industry and IBM initially wanted 64 bit. IBM compromised and gave us 56 bit.
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