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Brute force: cracking the data encryption standard

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2005 Copernicus Books New YorkDescription: x, 291 pISBN:
  • 9780387201092
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 005.82 C8B7
Summary: In the 1960s, it became increasingly clear that more and more information was going to be stored on computers, not on pieces of paper. With these changes in technology and the ways it was used came a need to protect both the systems and the information. For the next ten years, encryption systems of varying strengths were developed, but none proved to be rigorous enough. In 1973, the NBS put out an open call for a new, stronger encryption system that would become the new federal standard. Several years later, IBM responded with a system called Lucifer that came to simply be known as DES (data encryption standard). (http://www.springer.com/mathematics/book/978-0-387-20109-2)
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In the 1960s, it became increasingly clear that more and more information was going to be stored on computers, not on pieces of paper. With these changes in technology and the ways it was used came a need to protect both the systems and the information. For the next ten years, encryption systems of varying strengths were developed, but none proved to be rigorous enough. In 1973, the NBS put out an open call for a new, stronger encryption system that would become the new federal standard. Several years later, IBM responded with a system called Lucifer that came to simply be known as DES (data encryption standard). (http://www.springer.com/mathematics/book/978-0-387-20109-2)

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