13 Apr
2016
13 Apr
'16
9:11 a.m.
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?