Wonderer wrote: > 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. Wouldn't "triple-DES" imply three keys, or did I miss something?