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This paper presents an in-depth analysis of symmetric key cryptographic algorithms, focusing on RC2 and Triple DES (ECB) as implemented in CrypTool. It is widely used educational software that demonstrates various cryptographic algorithms and methods. This paper aims to provide a foundational understanding of CrypTool, explain the functionalities of RC2 and Triple DES in Electronic Codebook (ECB) mode and evaluate their performance and security. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our world is making its way toward complete digitization, with more and more data going to the Internet. Thus, the security of the data has become one of our utmost responsibilities. Strong and secure cryptography and steganography techniques have become the need of the hour to defend against modern adversaries. In this article, a novel scrambled data hiding approach is proposed to secure the sensitive information used in communications. The lacuna in the existing data hiding approaches is the loss of originality in the sensitive data to be attached, leading to poor information quality. This issue is addressed in the proposed approach by encrypting the data using the triple data encryption standard (DES) algorithm. The scrambled data are hidden in the audio file using the least significant bit (LSB) embedding. Experiments were conducted, and the proposed approach secured the sensitive information significantly without the loss of information quality. Furthermore, the secured information is retrieved by only the authenticated users with high quality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the history of DES and its successor Triple DES in the security market and secure data encryption. The different variations and improvements that have been proposed in research related to the uses of Triple DES since before it was approved as a standard for data encryption worldwide are studied. It is also important to mention that the proposals collected and analyzed are from different parts of the world, which solidifies the level of research carried out, due to the variety of sources found. In this way, the history of this algorithm is traced in order to provide the reader with a broad perspective on how it works and the different uses that have been made of it. Finally, it's determined that DES and 3-DES have been algorithms widely used in security information systems, but currently they are vulnerable to different attacks such as brute force and differential cryptanalysis, because of this it is suggested the use of other algorithms, for instance AES, or to include improvements in the DES and 3-DES implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]