3DES

[GRABOW_GEOFFREY at tandem.com]

>Quick question.  There's a brief mention in Applied Cryptography that
>triple DES uses:
>
>        Eabc(x) = Ea(Db(Ec(x)))
>
>as opposed to:
>
>        Eabc(x) = Ea(Eb(Ec(x)))
>
>in order to preserve some symmetry properties.  Can anyone give a
>better explanation?

I thought it goes like this:
         Eab(x) = Ea(Db(Ea(x)))

Anyone?

                                                     G.C.G.

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