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.
It has a key length of 56 bits.
See also
Specifications
- FIPS PUB 46 (1977)
- FIPS PUB 46-1 (1988)
- FIPS PUB 46-2 (1993)
- FIPS PUB 46-3 (1999)
Links
- FIPS PUB 81 (1980): DES Modes of Operation
- FIPS PUB 74 (1981): DES implementation guidelines
- Wikipedia article
- Wikipedia: DES supplementary material
