Chapter 14: Applying Ciphers

  

Introduction

Chapter 4 gave an introduction to the DES and Triple-DES algorithms. Simply put, the Data Encryption Standard (DES) is the cipher algorithm referenced for most modern-day algorithms. The DES algorithm has been broken, so Triple-DES was invented. Triple-DES does not change the cipher algorithm itself, except that it uses a combination of three keys to encrypt-decrypt-encrypt (EDE) the data. DES and Triple-DES are not the only ciphers supported by the JDK 1.4; this chapter introduces a few more.

  


Java Security Solutions
Java Security Solutions
ISBN: 0764549286
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 222

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