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Re: Why triple encryption instead of split+encrypt?
[email protected] says:
> Why do people do tripple DES and *shudder* tripple IDEA
^^^^^^^triple.
> instead of doing some form of non-redundant secret splitting
> and then encrypting with multiple keys.
Because people like algorithms that work quickly and don't expand
their data by a factor of two or three. As I've noted before, in spite
of protestations, the evidence is good that splitting and encryption
doesn't by you much over simple superencipherment.
Perry