ALL meanings of des
des
D d - abbreviation DES Department of Education and Science 3
- abbreviation DES diethylstilbestrol 3
- abbreviation Technical meaning of DES Data Encryption Standard 3
- preposition des used in French names as a contraction of de and the article les: François des Adrets. 1
- noun Technical meaning of des (DES) The NBS's popular, standard encryption algorithm. It is a product cipher that operates on 64-bit blocks of data, using a 56-bit key. It is defined in FIPS 46-1 (1988) (which supersedes FIPS 46 (1977)). DES is identical to the ANSI standard Data Encryption Algorithm (DEA) defined in ANSI X3.92-1981. DES has been implemented in VLSI. SunOS provides a des command which can make use of DES hardware if fitted. Neither the software nor the hardware are supposed to be distributed outside the USA. 1