The Economic Impacts of NIST's Data Encryption Standard (DES) Program

Abstract

The electronic transactions occurring routinely today in businesses and households have their basis in technological developments of just a few decades ago. These include vastly improved computing power, increased accessibility to communications through the development of the Internet and World Wide Web, and the implementation of behind the scenes technologies that assure the privacy and security of these various transactions. Encryption algorithms and methods are among those technologies that are less apparent to casual or business users, but are central to virtually every funds transfer, business-to-business data transfer or internal company data input and output today. This report examines the evolution and economic significance of NIST's Data Encryption Standard (DES) Program. DES was developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), formerly the National Bureau of Standards, (NBS) for protecting sensitive, unclassified.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2001
Accession Number
ADA398771

Entities

People

  • David P. Leech
  • Michael W. Chinworth

Organizations

  • TASC, Inc

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Authentication
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data Transmission
  • Economic Analysis
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Information Processing
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • Intellectual Property
  • Internet
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • East Asian Political and Security Studies within the Soviet Union

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics