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(fwd) Australians dump DES (from RISKS)
Can anyone provide ant detailed information on 'Seneca'?
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> From: [email protected] (Darrell Long)
> Newsgroups: sci.crypt
> Subject: Australians dump DES (from RISKS)
> Date: 19 Oct 1993 03:11:34 GMT
> Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (CE/CIS Boards)
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> Distribution: world
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>
> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1993 17:14:08 +1000
> From: [email protected] (Kevin Burfitt)
> Subject: Australian government to replace DES
>
> Here is something I found in an Australian computer magazine, which
> sounded like something for the Risks Forum...
>
> Quoted from "PCWEEK October 20, 1993"
>
> The Australian Government has secretly developed its own data
> encryption firmware and algorithm, killing its dependence on the
> US DES (Data Encryption Standard) Algorithm.
>
> Called Seneca, the firmware element was developed as a joint project
> of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in Adelaide
> and the Defense Signals Directorate (DSD) in Canberra.
>
> [...]
>
> "It is a symmetric encryption technology like DES, but can operate
> at very high speeds" said the source. Seneca's original specifications
> included a throughput of 2Mbps, but testing had achieved rates of
> 20Mbps.
>
> Isn't part of the security with DES its slowness, which implies that this
> new encryption method will be inherently risky because of its speed ?
>
> Kevin Burfitt
>
> [email protected] (Kevin Burfitt) Compuserve: 100240,2002
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>
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