Goh Seow Hiong writes:

Could someone confirm whether the US export restrictions apply to Triple-DES?

Yes.

If so, are there exceptions as in the case of DES (e.g. for banking or financial applications).

I have not heard of export licenses being granted for 3DES. However, why do you care? As a person from a reasonably free country you can just get the DES code from Finland or any one of dozens of other sites outside the US. Perry