The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing that the Data Encryption Standard (DES), a popular encryption algorithm, lose its certification for use in software products ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is proposing that the Data Encryption Standard, a popular encryption algorithm, lose its certification for use in software products sold to the ...

I wrote about the principles of encryption starting with the Caesar cipher and following the development of cryptography through to the modern day with systems like DES and AES. All these systems ...

On March 17, 1975, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) published its proposed Data Encryption Standard (DES) in the Federal Register. The algorithm used a 56-bit encryption key, which (it was ...

The DES cracker used by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in 1998 took 56 hours to complete the brute-force attack; Nohl was able to crack the DES encryption in two minutes on a modern ...

Encryption with DES has long been considered insecure, for more than two decades now. Now Microsoft is putting its money where its mouth is: DES encryption is finally being removed from Windows.

In an effort led by Roman Rusakov and Alexander Peslyak, the Openwall team’s breakthrough for more optimal DES S-box expressions provides a 17 percent improvement over the previous best results.

Crypto breakthrough shows Flame was designed by world-class scientists The spy malware achieved an attack unlike any cryptographers have seen before.