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Originally posted by andrewdodd13
DES isn't actually broken, however the keylength of 56 bits was deliberately crippled by the US NSA, presumably because they have a backdoor to decrypt it with short keylengths.
DES is no longer used main stream because 56bits just doesn't give you enough security. Three key Triple DES gives you a key length of 112 bits which is supposedly sufficient. Two key Triple DES gives you something like an effective key length of 80 bits.
If AES is good enough for the USA's secret files, I'm fine with it storing my encrypted info
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Originally posted by Menthix
Doesn't make it more secure. Security through obscurity is generally a bad thing .
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