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Dave Del Torto (ddt@openpgp.net)
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 03:28:48 -0800
At 11:21 PM -0800 981228, jehill@nexis.org wrote:
> I just looked though the catalog at www.x9.org and I didn't see it.
> I did find mention that the standard has gone to ballet. [sic]
Josh,
I can't resist digressing for a moment on this note. Your minor revelation, if indeed true, causes me to opine that the idea of X.9 pirouetting away from DES' S-boxes and leaning toward Balanchine's better vetted algorithms instead is either (A) the most poetic Freudian typo I've ever seen in a description of how standards bodies actually function, or (B) the most civilized direction I've heard of any standards working group taking lately (or both...).
Either way, one hopes that the BXA (et maestri) won't try to seize this opportunity to require that Steinway & Sons truncate their instruments from a full 88-bits of keying material down to 56, regardless of whether the allegretto is played on them backwards. ;)
dave
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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:17:39