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An encryption method developed by IBM in 1977. It uses a private 56-bit key that is applied to each 64- bit block of data. The sender and receiver must each know the private key. Anything encrypted by DES encryption has 72,000,000,000,000,000 (or 72 quadrillion) possible keys. DES encryption has been broken, but it took over 14,000 computers operating in succession to crank through codes until the proper key was found. S
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Data Encryption Standard - On Mon, 3 May 2004, Gary Novosielski wrote: "If you commit a felony in Florida, you lose your right to vote there, and you're 'scrubbed' from the rolls. You become a non-citizen, like in the old Soviet Union. This is not the case in most other states; it's an uncivilized vestige of the Deep South.Hardly an unbiased article. Nothing like appealing to clueless northeastliberal prejudices about the south."Most other states" (including northeast liberal states) also deny felonsthe right to vote, unless that felon goes through a fairly elaborateprocedure to have civil rights restored.Besides voting, felons are also stripped of other civil rights. Thisincludes Second Amendment rights. A middle-aged man found that outwhen he tried to buy a hunting rifle because of a "violent felony" onhis record. The "violent felony" turned out to be a statutory rapeconviction when he was 17. The "rape" had been discovered when the 17year old "victim" became pregnant. They had subsequently been marriedfor 35 years. The only reason why it ever got to court was that aBible-thumping DA wasn't satisfied with a shotgun wedding.Unlike the procedure to get voting rights restored, it is almostimpossible to get gun rights restored. There is a procedure in law todo that via application to the Justice Department, but the Democratsin Congress have blocked any funding for the procedure.The legal term for extinction of civil rights is "Attainder".Contrary to what the uneducated may think, attainder *does* exist inthe US. The Constitutional prohibition is of a "Bill of Attainder";that is, a law passed in the legislature or a regulation in theexecutive branch to extinguish a named individual's civil rights.Courts, on the other hand, are quite able to attaint.The English Parliament was quite willing to pass Bills of Attainder at thewhims of the ruling monarch, and this was an abuse that the FoundingFathers wanted to prevent in the US.There's a related concept in English law called "corruption of blood"which was also significantly limited by the US Constitution; this barsan attainted person from inheriting, retaining, or transmitting anyassets. In the US, corruption of blood ceases when the attaintedperson dies, thus his heirs can claim any assets still in hispossession.-- Mark --http://staff.washington.edu/mrcScience does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate.Si vis pacem, para bellum.
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