page_title: DES Challenges
hierarchical_section_title: DES Challenges
caption_attribution_description: DES Cracker circuit board fitted with Deep Crack chips Source: http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Crypto/Crypto_misc/DESCracker/ Copyright: the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Information on licenses found from: https://www.eff.org/&#160;; private communication by en:User:Matt Crypto
context_page_description: The DES Challenges were a series of brute force attack contests created by RSA Security to highlight the lack of security provided by the Data Encryption Standard.
context_section_description: The DES Challenges were a series of brute force attack contests created by RSA Security to highlight the lack of security provided by the Data Encryption Standard.
caption: Part of the EFF's DES cracking machine which was used in two of the challenges
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