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The Data Encryption Standard (DES) is a symmetric-key block cipher published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

DES is an implementation of a Feistel Cipher. It uses 16 round Feistel structure. The block size is 64-bit. Though, key length is 64-bit, DES has an effective key length of 56 bits, since 8 of the 64 bits of the key are not used by the encryption algorithm (function as check bits only). General Structure of DES is depicted in the following illustration −

Since DES is based on the Feistel Cipher, all that is required to specify DES is −

The first is PRIMARY KEY, which as the name suggests, forces the specified column to behave as a completely unique index for the table, allowing for rapid searching and queries. While SQL Server only allows one PRIMARY KEY constraint assigned to a single table, that PRIMARY KEY can be defined for more than one column. Autogenerate primary key sql server.

A wide variety of round key lock options are available to you, There are 1,397 suppliers who sells round key lock on Alibaba.com, mainly located in Asia. The top countries of suppliers are India, China, and Taiwan, China, from which the percentage of round key lock supply is 1%, 96%, and 2% respectively. AES uses a key schedule to expand a short key into a number of separate round keys. The three AES variants have a different number of rounds. Each variant requires a separate 128-bit round key for each round plus one more. The key schedule produces the needed round keys from the initial key. The rule for the value of W0 is a little more complicated to describe, although still simple to compute. For each round key Rkey1 to Rkey10, the value of W0 is the sum of three 32-bit values: The value of W0 from the previous round key. The value of W3 from the previous round key, rotated right by 8 bits. A special value from a table called Rcon.

2005-9-29  Successive round keys of an expanded key according to the AES block cipher algorithm are generated from an initial cryptographic key, for use in a cryptographic (encryption and/or decryption) engine, in real time as the cryptographic process is executing. With regard to using a key length other than 128 bits, the main thing that changes in AES is how you generate the key schedule from the key — an issue I address at the end of Section 8.8.1. The notion of key schedule in AES is explained in Sections 8.2 and 8.8. Encryption consists of 10 rounds of processing for 128-bit keys. I was reading an article regarding AES algorithm. For Round 0 key generation, one of the steps is to add the round constant to the output from s-box. Ex: Byte Substitution (S-Box): (B7; 5A; 9D; 85) u000F.

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Initial and Final Permutation

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The initial and final permutations are straight Permutation boxes (P-boxes) that are inverses of each other. They have no cryptography significance in DES. The initial and final permutations are shown as follows −

Round Function

The heart of this cipher is the DES function, f. The DES function applies a 48-bit key to the rightmost 32 bits to produce a 32-bit output.

• Expansion Permutation Box − Since right input is 32-bit and round key is a 48-bit, we first need to expand right input to 48 bits. Permutation logic is graphically depicted in the following illustration −

• The graphically depicted permutation logic is generally described as table in DES specification illustrated as shown −

• XOR (Whitener). − After the expansion permutation, DES does XOR operation on the expanded right section and the round key. The round key is used only in this operation.

• Substitution Boxes. − The S-boxes carry out the real mixing (confusion). DES uses 8 S-boxes, each with a 6-bit input and a 4-bit output. Refer the following illustration −

• The S-box rule is illustrated below −

• There are a total of eight S-box tables. The output of all eight s-boxes is then combined in to 32 bit section.

• Straight Permutation − The 32 bit output of S-boxes is then subjected to the straight permutation with rule shown in the following illustration:

Key Generation

The round-key generator creates sixteen 48-bit keys out of a 56-bit cipher key. The process of key generation is depicted in the following illustration −

The logic for Parity drop, shifting, and Compression P-box is given in the DES description.

DES Analysis

The DES satisfies both the desired properties of block cipher. These two properties make cipher very strong.

• Avalanche effect − A small change in plaintext results in the very great change in the ciphertext.

• Completeness − Each bit of ciphertext depends on many bits of plaintext.

During the last few years, cryptanalysis have found some weaknesses in DES when key selected are weak keys. These keys shall be avoided.

DES has proved to be a very well designed block cipher. There have been no significant cryptanalytic attacks on DES other than exhaustive key search.