Amaya Toman At a time when the mass spread of the Internet was still in its infancy in many parts of the world, a group of users agreed to try to break the powerful DES encryption standard. The entire work took them five months, and we will remember the mentioned successful breakthrough in our today's return to the past.
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Breaking the DES encryption standard (1997)
On June 17, 1997, a group of users managed to successfully break the so-called Data Encryption Standard. The Data Encryption Standard, or DES, is a symmetric cipher that was chosen as the standard (FIPS 46) for data encryption in civilian government organizations in the United States of America, and gradually expanded to the private sector as well. At the time of its breaking, DES was considered the strongest official encryption tool. The aforementioned group, which came together over the Internet, took five months to crack DES.
Registration of the first video games (1980)
On June 17, 1980, the US Copyright Office registered the first video game registration in history. These were two titles - Asteroids and Lunar Lander by Atari. Asteroids was released in November 1979 and was co-developed by Lyle Rains and Ed Logg. The task of the players in this game was to control a spaceship while shooting down flying saucers and asteroids while avoiding any collision. Asteroids is considered one of the first hits of the golden era of arcade games. Lunar Lander was a single-player game released in August 1979. Like Asteroids, this title was set in space. Atari managed to sell a total of 4830 units of Lunar Lander before being overtaken by the aforementioned Asteroids a few months later.
