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Re: DES



Wonderer wrote:

> I don't think it takes the cube of it. There are 56 bits in
> one key, and 112 bits in two keys, so there could not be
> an entropy of more than 112 bits to triple DES. It is no
> more cryptographically secure than double DES because it
> uses 2 keys.

Wouldn't "triple-DES" imply three keys, or did I miss something?