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Khafre

A patented, symmetric block cipher designed by Ralph C. Merkle as a plug-in replacement for DES. [Schn]

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Jan 06, 2026

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A patented, symmetric block cipher designed by Ralph C. Merkle as a plug in replacement for DES. [Schn] Tutorial: Khafre was designed for efficient encryption of small amounts of data. However, because Khafre does not precompute tables used for encryption, it is slower than Khufu for large amounts of data.

A patented, symmetric block cipher designed by Ralph C. Merkle as a plug-in replacement for DES. [Schn]

Tutorial: Khafre was designed for efficient encryption of small amounts of data. However, because Khafre does not precompute tables used for encryption, it is slower than Khufu for large amounts of data.

IETF RFC 4949 (Internet Security Glossary)

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IETF RFC 4949 (Internet Security Glossary)
Accessed Jan 06, 2026Quoted
RFC 4949 — Internet Security Glossary (Version 2)
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4949.txt
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Source: IETF RFC 4949 (rfc-editor.org).