DES-X

In cryptography, DES-X (or DESX) is an alternative to the DES (Data Encryption Standard) block cipher designed to increase the complexity of a brute force attack using a technique called key whitening. As DES suffers from brute force attack DES-X was a trial to overcome such drawbacks.

Related pages

• Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
• Data Encryption Standard (DES)
• Triple DES (TDES)