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What was to explain? It had a 56-bit key.

• ls612 7mo ago
  Was that the only thing wrong with it? The 90s was definitely before my time but I was under the impression reading about it that there were also fundamental flaws with DES which lead to the competition which ultimately produced AES.
  • tptacek 7mo ago
    Yes, that was what was wrong with DES. I mean, it also had an 8-byte block size, which turns out to be inadequate as well, but that's true of IDEA and Blowfish as well.