Describe Skipjack

Describe briefly the term Skipjack.

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Skipjack is encryption algorithm contained in Clipper chip, and it was intended by NSA. It uses the 80-bit key to encrypt 64-bit blocks of a data. Skipjack can be safer than DES, because it uses 80-bit keys as well as scrambles the data for 32 steps, or ‘rounds’.

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