DES
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'''Data Encryption Standard''' ('''DES''') is a standard ''block cipher'' (a building block for data encryption algorithms). It is considered to be obsolete. | '''Data Encryption Standard''' ('''DES''') is a standard ''block cipher'' (a building block for data encryption algorithms). It is considered to be obsolete. | ||
| − | It has a key length of 56 bits. | + | It has a block size of 64 bits, and a key length of 56 bits. |
== See also == | == See also == | ||
| + | * [[passwd#crypt]] | ||
* [[Triple DES]] | * [[Triple DES]] | ||
Latest revision as of 12:58, 5 May 2017
Data Encryption Standard (DES) is a standard block cipher (a building block for data encryption algorithms). It is considered to be obsolete.
It has a block size of 64 bits, and a key length of 56 bits.
[edit] See also
[edit] Specifications
- FIPS PUB 46 (1977)
- FIPS PUB 46-1 (1988)
- FIPS PUB 46-2 (1993)
- FIPS PUB 46-3 (1999)
[edit] Links
- FIPS PUB 81 (1980): DES Modes of Operation
- FIPS PUB 74 (1981): DES implementation guidelines
- Wikipedia article
- Wikipedia: DES supplementary material
