!!! Overview
The [Data Encryption Standard] or [DES] was once a predominant symmetric-key [Cipher] algorithm for the encryption of electronic data. 

[{$pagename}] was highly influential in the advancement of modern [Cryptography] in the academic world. 

Developed in the early [1970s] at [IBM] and based on an earlier design by Horst Feistel, the [Cipher] was submitted to the [National Bureau of Standards] (NBS) following the agency's invitation to propose a candidate for the protection of [sensitive], [unclassified] electronic [government] [data].

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