The PrivacyDES type exposes the following members.

Properties

  NameDescription
CanExtendShortKey
DES implementation does NOT support extending of a short encryption key. Always returns false.
MaximumKeyLength
Return maximum encryption/decryption key length. For DES, returned value is 16 DES protocol itself requires an 8 byte key. Additional 8 bytes are used for generating the encryption IV. For encryption itself, first 8 bytes of the key are used.
MinimumKeyLength
Returns minimum encryption/decryption key length. For DES, returned value is 16. DES protocol itself requires an 8 byte key. Additional 8 bytes are used for generating the encryption IV. For encryption itself, first 8 bytes of the key are used.
Name
Privacy protocol name
PrivacyParametersLength
Returns the length of privacyParameters USM header field. For DES, field length is 8.

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