Why triple encryption instead of split+encrypt?
Perry E. Metzger
perry at imsi.com
Thu Jul 14 06:44:20 PDT 1994
solman at mit.edu says:
> Why do people do tripple DES and *shudder* tripple IDEA
^^^^^^^triple.
> instead of doing some form of non-redundant secret splitting
> and then encrypting with multiple keys.
Because people like algorithms that work quickly and don't expand
their data by a factor of two or three. As I've noted before, in spite
of protestations, the evidence is good that splitting and encryption
doesn't by you much over simple superencipherment.
Perry
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