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		twoodfin on July 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel In Bed with NSA? Who was arguing for 128-bit DES? Wikipedia says IBM wanted 64.

EthanHeilman on July 15, 2013 [–]

The original version of DES was called Lucifer and used a 128 bit key. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(cipher)

The NSA choose the key size of DES since they were running the process (making DES 256 times weaker than a 64 bit key).

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