Data Encryption Standard (DES) ABSTACT INTRODUCTION : The Data Encryption Standard (DES) has been developed as a cryptographic

standard for the General use by the public. DES was designed with the following objectives in mind [NIS77,PA89] 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. High level of security Completely specified and easy to understand Cryptographic security do not depend on algorithm secrecy Adaptable to diverse application Economical hardware implementation Efficient ( high data rates) Can be validated Exportable

Data Encryption Algorithm Substitution permution algorithm: - 64-bit input and output blocks - 56-bit key (with an additional 8 parity bits) - information data is cycled 16 times through a set of substitution and permution transformation : highly non- linear input-output relationship Very high throughput rates achievable(up to 100 Mbits/s) Availability of economical hardware to implement DES Low to medium security applications (e.g.secure speech communications)

SUBMITTED BY : SUNIL SEN (09/N 327)