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What Is The DES Algorithm

The DES (Data Encryption Standard) algorithm is a symmetric-key block cipher created by IBM in the 1970s that uses a 56-bit key to encrypt 64-bit blocks of plaintext into ciphertext. It is a symmetric algorithm that uses the same key for encryption and decryption. DES is based on a Feistel cipher structure developed by Horst Feistel at IBM in 1971 and uses this structure with 16 rounds, applying a different 48-bit key each round.

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What Is The DES Algorithm

The DES (Data Encryption Standard) algorithm is a symmetric-key block cipher created by IBM in the 1970s that uses a 56-bit key to encrypt 64-bit blocks of plaintext into ciphertext. It is a symmetric algorithm that uses the same key for encryption and decryption. DES is based on a Feistel cipher structure developed by Horst Feistel at IBM in 1971 and uses this structure with 16 rounds, applying a different 48-bit key each round.

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What is the DES Algorithm?

The DES (Data Encryption Standard) algorithm is a symmetric-key block cipher


created in the early 1970s by an IBM team and adopted by the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST). The algorithm takes the plain text in 64-bit blocks
and converts them into ciphertext using 48-bit keys.

Since it’s a symmetric-key algorithm, it employs the same key in both encrypting and
decrypting the data. If it were an asymmetrical algorithm, it would use different keys
for encryption and decryption.

DES is based on the Feistel block cipher, called LUCIFER, developed in 1971 by
IBM cryptography researcher Horst Feistel. DES uses 16 rounds of the Feistel
structure, using a different key for each round.

DES became the approved federal encryption standard in November 1976 and
subsequently reaffirmed as the standard in 1983, 1988, and 1999. For the longest
time, DES was the data encryption standard in information security

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