Exhaustive Cryptanalysis of the NBS Data Encryption Standard

Computer

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1977, Pages 74-84

  Diffie, Whitfield ^a   Hellman, Martin E ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTANALYSIS;

STANDARDS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0017501281     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/C-M.1977.217750     Document Type: Article

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