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Re: DES Question



	 Mainly to sabotage the performance of DES software implementations.
	 Even back then the government knew it was much easier to control
	 the dissemination of hardware than software.

Are you sure?  I got the distinct impression it was related to
serial/parallel conversions on the chips of the time.