Ben McGinnes wrote: > How many times do we have to say it? Triple-DES was *designed* by the > NSA and its original theoretical security level of 168-bit has already > been *publicly* knocked down to 112-bit or less.
Isn't 3DES even a thing only because the banking industry had BAKED-IN a key length of 56KiB throughout their ENTIRE infrastructure (including merchant POS terminals and ATMs &c), and they couldn't afford to replace them all at once? _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
