Information Security
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Research & Development
Symmetric-key Encryption
 
MISTY is a symmetric-key encryption algorithm developed by Mitsubishi Electric in 1995. Its design is based on the company’s world-leading standard encryption-strength evaluation technology. MISTY has been quantitatively verified as safer than the US standard for commercial encryption, the DES, against differential and linear cryptanalysis.




Security requirements
Internet and Intranet
Communication networks need to be open but safe.

Safety
The safety of encryption algorithms should be quantitatively measurable. And those measurements need to cover a wide span, from whether the algorithm is weak but cheap to whether it is extremely strong but expensive.

Technological Progress
The 56-bit key DES can no longer be considered safe.

High-speed processing function for software and hardware



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Design goals
Algorithm disclosed but secure
It is necessary for an encryption algorithm to be as disclosed as DES structure without sacrificing its security.

Safer than DES
Today’s encryptions need stronger protection than DES’s 56-bit key, which can no longer provide ample safety against cryptanalysis.

Quantitative encryption strength
The encryption strength of an encryption algorithm needs to be verified quantitatively.

High-speed processing functions
It is critical that today’s encryption algorithms possess high-speed processing functions for software and hardware.



 
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