![]() ![]() Two organizations played key roles in breaking DES: and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). To show that the DES was inadequate and should not be used in important systems anymore, a series of challenges were sponsored to see how long it would take to decrypt a message. The idea was to ensure government systems all used the same, secure standard to facilitate interconnectivity. The federal government originally developed DES encryption over 35 years ago to provide cryptographic security for all government communications. Published as the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 46 standard in 1977, DES was officially withdrawn in 2005. To better understand why: let’s compare DES and AES encryption: Data Encryption Standard (DES) What is DES encryption?ĭES is a symmetric block cipher (shared secret key), with a key length of 56-bits. ![]() If your organization hasn’t switched to the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), it’s time for an upgrade. Every so often, we encounter someone still using antiquated DES for encryption.
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