DES
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A standard for encrypting data, developed at IBM in 1976. It is a 56-bit private key algorithm that uses the block cipher method. A block cipher sends encrypted data to break the text into 64-bit blocks before transmitting it. Hey, this is ground-breaking stuff in techie land.
See also : encryption
NetLingo Classification: Net Technology
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