DES

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DES or Data Encryption Standard is a cipher selected as an official FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) for the U.S.

DES is now considered to be insecure due to the 56-bit key size being too small.

External Links

• Wikipedia article on DES
• - A FPGA-based Codebreaker for DES and other Ciphers
• - DEEP Crack - Hardware DES cracking