DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD

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Information on Data Encryption Standard (DES)

The Data Encryption Standard (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 Data Encryption Standard include: 
 
  • encryption
  • plain text
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  • cipher text
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  • Public-key encryption
  • Decryption

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