Encryption algorithms made natural

  • Authors:

  • Misha Koshelev;Vladik Kreinovich;Luc Longpré

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas;Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas;Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas

  • Venue:
  • ITiCSE-WGR '99 Working group reports from ITiCSE on Innovation and technology in computer science education
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Modern cryptographic algorithms such as DES, IDEA are very complex and therefore difficult to learn. Textbooks explain in detail how these algorithms work, but they usually do not explain why these algorithms were designed as they were. In this paper, we explain the why, which hopefully will make cryptographic algorithms easier to learn.