Re: Any usage of DES cryptosystem in applications?

From: Ulrich K. Boche (boche@de.ibm.com)
Date: 02/27/03 

From: "Ulrich K. Boche" <boche@de.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:59:01 +0100

warr wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Are there applications that use the DES( or 3DES ) cryptosystem for security?
>
> if you know any of them, please post it here.
>
> Thanks a lot.

IPsec can use DES and 3-key 3DES, SSL/TLS also has cipher suites that
use DES and 3-key 3DES for data encryption.

To my knowledge, SWIFT (international money transfer between banks) is
using 2-key 3DES. 

-- 
Ulrich Boche
IBM eServer Sales Technical Support (z/OS + e-Business Security)

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