# DES Class Reference

`#include <des.h>`

Inheritance diagram for DES:

List of all members.

## Detailed Description

DES

The DES implementation in Crypto++ ignores the parity bits (the least significant bits of each byte) in the key. However you can use CheckKeyParityBits() and CorrectKeyParityBits() to check or correct the parity bits if you wish.

Definition at line 36 of file des.h.

## Public Types
typedef BlockCipherFinal < ENCRYPTION, Base > | Encryption
| implements the BlockCipher interface
typedef BlockCipherFinal < DECRYPTION, Base > | Decryption
| implements the BlockCipher interface
## Static Public Member Functions
static bool | CheckKeyParityBits (const byte *key)
| check DES key parity bits
static void | CorrectKeyParityBits (byte *key)
| correct DES key parity bits
static const char * | StaticAlgorithmName ()
static size_t __cdecl | StaticGetValidKeyLength (size_t)
## Static Public Attributes
static const int | BLOCKSIZE
static const int | KEYLENGTH
static const int | MIN_KEYLENGTH
static const int | MAX_KEYLENGTH
static const int | DEFAULT_KEYLENGTH
static const int | IV_REQUIREMENT
static const int | IV_LENGTH
## Classes
class | Base

The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

- des.h
- des.cpp