From 53db6258053bc9a7a9f7939507c1ca99c2aa3436 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Love=20H=C3=B6rnquist=20=C3=85strand?= Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:03:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] History of DES. git-svn-id: svn://svn.h5l.se/heimdal/trunk/heimdal@23050 ec53bebd-3082-4978-b11e-865c3cabbd6b --- lib/hcrypto/des.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/lib/hcrypto/des.c b/lib/hcrypto/des.c index ebd38f9d2..9c17a7a40 100644 --- a/lib/hcrypto/des.c +++ b/lib/hcrypto/des.c @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ * * See the library functions here: @ref hcrypto_des * + * DES was created by IBM, modififed by NSA and then adopted by NBS + * (now NIST) and published ad FIPS PUB 46 (updated by FIPS 46-1). + * + * Read more the iteresting history of DES on Wikipedia + * http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard . * * @section des_impl DES implementation history *