DES, Triple-DES, and AES.ppt

7/3/01 7/3/01 CSPP 532 DES, Triple-DES, and AES Sandy Kutin CSPP 532 7/3/01 Symmetric Cryptography Secure communication has two parts: Establish a key (public key methods) Encrypt message symmetrically using key Symmetric encryption is faster Cryptographic scheme is only as good as its “weakest link” We need to understand strengths and weaknesses of symmetric encryption DES: Data Encryption Standard 1972: National Bureau of Standards begins search 1975: DES: Lucifer by IBM, modified by NSA (key reduced from 128 to 56 bits) Approved by NBS ‘76, ANSI ‘81 renewed every 5 years by NIST now co