NODE 11dd38d7Re: DId you ever think...
No, my writing ability is not in error here -- my mental model of the history of DES is what is in error. I will now update my personal model of DES development to include two steps at IBM. Lucifer -> proto-DES at IBM, and proto-DES -> DES at NSA. Learn something new every day... Since about 1977 I wondered what the 'rediscovered crypto techniques' were. Thanks! j'