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DES
DES, Short for Data Encryption Standard, a popular symmetric-key encryption method developed in 1975 and standardized by ANSI in 1981 as ANSI X.3.92. DES uses a 56-bit key and uses the block cipher method, which breaks text into 64-bit blocks and then encrypts them.
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Symmetric-key cryptography is an encryption system in which the sender and receiver of a message share a single, common key... (more about Symmetric key cryptography...)
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