Re: Triple DES "standard"?

jehill@nexis.org
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 18:59:33 -0800

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On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 02:35:37PM -0800, Rodney Thayer wrote:
> Is there a "standard" for Triple DES? I don't see anything in the various
> FIPS document (go ahead, correct me...) and in the IPsec world
> we keep referencing the Tuchman 1979 article where he postulated the use
> of two-key triple DES. Is there a FIPS document or something?
> Is this really just tradition, as quantified by Schneier, etc.?

ANSI X9.52, "Triple Data Encryption Algorithm Modes of Operation" is the
draft standard that is used for testing to FIPS 140-1.

                                Josh

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