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The Data Encryption Standard (DES) has been by far the most popular block cipher for most of the last 30 years. Even though it is nowadays not considered secure against a determined attacker because the DES key space is too small, it is still used in legacy applications. Furthermore, encrypting data three times in a row with DES — a process referred to as 3DES or triple DES — yields a very secure cipher which is still widely used today (Section 3.5 deals with 3DES.) Perhaps what is more important, since DES is by far the best-studied symmetric algorithm, its design principles have inspired many current ciphers. Hence, studying DES helps us to understand many other symmetric algorithms.
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Paar, C., Pelzl, J. (2010). The Data Encryption Standard (DES) and Alternatives. In: Understanding Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04101-3_3
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