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Nitpick: they changed DES's S-boxes. DSA doesn't have S-boxes. Skepticism about NSA's involvement in any crypto standard (a decade ago!) led NIST to document precisely the mechanism used to generate DSA's parameters.

I think maybe it's the fact that I started in the industry during the era of Clipper that stuff like this doesn't faze me much.



Gah. I even noticed that typo while writing it, then forgot about it after having edited another part of my comment. Yes, I meant DES, not DSA.




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