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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.
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It has a block size of 64 bits, and a key length of 56 bits.
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
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* [[passwd#crypt]]
 
* [[Triple DES]]
 
* [[Triple DES]]
  

Latest revision as of 12:58, 5 May 2017

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Name DES
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Released 1977

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.

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