Brute Force Cracking the Data Encryption Standard /

• Main Author: Curtin, Matt (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Data encryption (Computer science).; Coding theory.; Computers and civilization.; Popular Science.; Popular Science, general.; Computers and Society.; Data Encryption.; Coding and Information Theory.

In the 1960s, it became increasingly clear that more and more information was going to be stored on computers, not on pieces of paper. With these changes in technology and the ways it was used came a need to protect both the systems and the information. For the next ten years, encryption systems of...

Table of Contents:

• Working Late
• Keeping Secrets
• Data Encryption Standard
• Key Length
• Discovery
• RSA Crypto Challenges
• Congress Takes Note
• Supercomputer
• Organizing DESCHALL
• Needle in a Haystack
• Spreading the Word
• The Race Is On
• Clients
• Architecture
• Progress
• Trouble
• Milestones
• Gateways
• Network
• Download
• Short Circuit
• DESCHALL Community
• Proposal
• In the Lead
• Recruiting
• Threats
• Overdrive
• Distributed
• An Obstacle
• Export
• Getting Word Out
• Salvos in the Crypto Wars
• New Competition
• Netlag
• Terminal Velocity
• Duct Tape
• Showdown in the Senate
• “Strong Cryptography Makes the World a Safer Place”
• Aftermath
• Staying the Course
• In Retrospect.