NIST says DES encryption 'inadequate'

Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
July 29, 2004
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/29/HNdesinadequate_1.html

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is proposing
that the Data Encryption Standard (DES), ... lose its certification for
use in software products sold to the government.

 ... massively parallel computing has rendered DES inadequate ...

DES was the first government-approved standard for encrypting ...
"single DES" uses a 56-bit key ...

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