DES

• FAQ
  • What is DES? (RSA Laboratories FAQ)
  • Has DES been Broken? (RSA Laboratories FAQ)
  • How Does One Use DES Securely? (RSA Laboratories FAQ)
  • Should One Test for Weak Keys in DES? (RSA Laboratories FAQ)
  • Is DES a group? (RSA Laboratories FAQ)
  • What is triple-DES? (RSA Laboratories FAQ)
  • What is DES-X? (RSA Laboratories FAQ)
  • What are some other DES variants? (RSA Laboratories FAQ)
• Implementations
  • BrydDES (fast DES implementations by Svend Mikkelsen)
  • Bitslice DES (Michael Kwan)
  • Bitsliced DES using MMX Technology (Lyta Penna)
  • DES implementations for Microchip PIC (Eric Smith)
  • Solaris Data Encryption Download
  • [www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/des/:EFF DES Cracker Source Code:VHDL:28.06.00] (VHDL)
  • DES Encryption 0.0.1 (Sean Patrick Kane)
  • Papers
    • A Fast New DES Implementation in Software (Eli Biham)
• Enhancements
  • How to protect DES against exhaustive key search (Joe Kilian and Phillip Rogaway, Crypto '96 (DESX))
• Cryptanalysis
  • Six Ways to Break DES (Memo by Vaudenay)
  • Davies' Attack
    • An improvement of Davies' attack on DES (Eli Biham, Alex Biryukov, JoC 1997)
      • Alternative download
        (13.12.99)
  • @Block Ciphers: Cryptanalysis
    • @Differential Cryptanalysis
  • Sidechannel attacks
    • A New Class of Side-Channel Attacks on DES (Christof Paar, Jan Pelzl, Thomas Wollinger and Hans Dobbertin, 2002)
• Cracking the DES
  • EFF DES Cracker Project
  • Cryptography Research, Inc. DES Key Search Project
  • [www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/des:EFF DES Cracker Source Code:Hosted @COSIC:26.08.98:07.06.00] (Hosted @COSIC)
  • Cryptoscan.org (sources for "Cracking DES")
  • A Brute Force Search of DES Keyspace (Matt Curtin, Justin Dolske, 1998)
• Overviews
  • Cryptography (Don Coppersmidth, IBM R&D Journal, 2000)
• Why IP/IP^{-1}
  • newsposting by David Koontz (11.09.01)

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