DES

wonderer an41418 at anon.penet.fi
Thu Oct 14 10:51:59 PDT 1993


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.
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