Publication Date
2-1998
Abstract
Modern cryptographic algorithms, such as DES, IDEA, etc., are very complex and therefore difficult to learn. Textbooks explain in detail how these algorithms work, but they usually do not explain why these algorithms were designed as they were. In this paper, we explain why, and thus, hopefully, make cryptographic algorithms easier to learn.
Comments
Technical Report: UTEP-CS-98-9
Short version published in Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), 1999, Vol. 67, pp. 153-156; full version published in Inroads: ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, 1999, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 50-51.