Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard

"Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard" is a landmark paper written by a team of researchers including Eli Biham, Adi Shamir (co-inventor of the RSA encryption algorithm), and others, published in the late 1990s. The paper discusses a successful approach to break the Data Encryption Standard (DES), which was widely used for securing data in the late 20th century. **Key points about the paper and the research include:** 1.