The document summarizes the Data Encryption Standard (DES) cryptosystem. It describes DES as a symmetric-key block cipher developed from a modified version of the Lucifer cipher and standardized by NIST in 1975. The core of DES is the DES function, which applies a 48-bit key to the rightmost 32 bits of the input block using substitution boxes and permutation tables to produce a 32-bit output in a Feistel network structure, with 16 rounds of processing to diffuse the plaintext over the block.