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December 23, 1998 Web posted at: 10:30 AM EST

by Rebecca Sykes

(IDG) -- RSA Data Security will host another contest to break the U.S. government's Data Encryption Standard at the RSA Data Security Conference in San Jose, Calif., in January.

The 56-bit DES encryption algorithm is widely used and has been broken in the contest before, most recently in July in a record three days.

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