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Cybersecurity & Cryptography · Recorded milestone

Data Encryption Standard

Recorded year1977

DES becomes the first public, government-approved encryption standard.

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Built on

Information theoryRecorded · 1948enables
Integrated circuitRecorded · 1958requires
IBM System/360Recorded · 1964enables

Led to

AES encryptionRecorded · 2001enables

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.