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The DES (DEC) is an algorithm that encrypts plain text data into an encoded form, called cipher text.


Other topics in our resources on Communications Systems related to DES include: 
 
  • encryption
  • plain text
  • cipher text
  • Public-key encryption
  • Decryption
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