Talk:CDMF

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Why so complicated?

Latest comment: 10 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Why not just use DES with certain bits set to known values? --RokerHRO (talk) 19:54, 18 October 2014 (UTC)Reply

Most likely to avoid the possibility of generating weak keys and therefore ending up with even less than 40-bits of security. Blenheimears (talk) 00:59, 12 May 2016 (UTC)Reply