“John the Ripper” Open Source Password Cracker Offers Increased Speed Through 17 Percent Improvement in Gate Count for Data Encryption Standard (DES) Algorithm ...

Karsten Nohl, the founder of Berlin's Security Research Labs, has announced an exploit for SIM cards using the outdated 56-bit DES algorithm for its signature verification. The security researcher ...

Unlike the NSA's secretive work on DES—which made the algorithm better—the secretive work presumed to have taken place on SP 800-90 has probably made it a little bit worse. Money well spent?

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