DES (Data Encryption Standard) Cryptographic Services Designed for the DOE Wide Band Communications Network

摘要

To exchange information between separate facilities of the Nuclear Weapons Complex quickly, accurately, and in computer-readable form, the Department of Energy (DOE) has built a secure data communications facility called the Wide Band Communications Network. The network proper achieves security by using high-grade encryption for the communicaions links and strict physical security measures at the nodes. To provide need-to-know separation among various elements and users of the network, data are encrypted before transmission using the National Bureau of Standards' Data Encryption standard (DES) algorithm. The software described here provides the key management, key distribution, and cipher processing for this network. (ERA citation 13:014384)