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Symmetric-key encryption schemes provide secure communication for a pair of communication partners. An adversary who intercepts a message should not get any significant information about its content. In this chapter, we give a short introduction to symmetric-key encryption. We explain the notions of stream and block ciphers. The operation modes of block ciphers are studied and, as a prominent example for block ciphers, the DES is described.
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Delfs, H., Knebl, H. (2002). Symmetric-Key Encryption. In: Introduction to Cryptography. Information Security and Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87126-9_2
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