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Triple DES
Last modified: Monday, October 27, 2003
Also referred to as 3DES, a mode of the DESencryptionalgorithm that encrypts data three times. Three 64-bitkeys are used, instead of one, for an overall key length of 192 bits (the first encryption is encrypted with second key, and the resulting cipher text is again encrypted with a third key).
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