Data Encryption Standard/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Data Encryption Standard.

A cryptographic specification issued by the U.S. government, in 1976 and having several improvements, intended for sensitive but unclassified data; it is now obsolescent, succeeded for U.S.-approved applications by the Advanced Encryption Standard, but still used in commercial systems