Tag: DES
Future of Cryptography.
by cisspfix on Oct.06, 2009, under Security
This centaury stands on the edge of new modern methods of attacks and advancement in the speed of computation, which taken over the best known secure secret-key algorithm such as DES, Digital Encryption Standard conquered the world of cryptography for centuries. A 40 bit version of the DES algorithm can be easily cracked by any modern computer and a 56 bit can be broken by any cheaply available Super Computer or by a simple beo-wulf cluster. That poses a security threat and people have developed, developing various other algorithms like 3DES also known as Triple DES etc, The NIST and NSA plays an important role in deciding the algorithms. They analyze and recommend the algorithm for usage.
