In this book, the author accounts his involvement in the DESCHALL Project, mobilizing thousands of personal computers in 1997 in order to meet the challenge to crack a single message encrypted with DES.
The PIN functions, with an early commercial encryption using the DES algorithm, were implemented in two modules - BQKPERS and BQKCIPH - and their export controlled under the US export munitions rules.
Standard Liège | Standard Oil | Standard & Poor's | Digital data | Array data structure | Advanced Encryption Standard | Electronic Data Systems | Data General | Standard Chinese | Encryption | standard | encryption | Data East | data center | Standard Tibetan | data | Control Data Corporation | The Weekly Standard | Standard Model | Radio Data System | International Standard Book Number | Automatic Data Processing | Technical standard | Standard score | Standard Chartered | Standard | Protein Data Bank | Gold Standard Laboratories | Evening Standard Award | data compression |
The use of a PIN and cryptographic algorithms such as DES, Triple-DES, RSA and SHA provide authentication of the card to the processing terminal and the card issuer's host system.
Curtin's work includes helping to prove the weakness of the Data Encryption Standard and providing expert testimony in Blumofe v. Pharmatrak, in which a key ruling was made by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, showing how the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) applies to Web technology.