See also: Cryptography | DES
Home Page: http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/des.htm
Also known as: TripleDES
A commonly-used encryption algorithm, or cipher, derrived from the insecure DES but many times more powerful. It is a common algorithm used by default in many pre-AES encryption programs, including SSL and SSH 1.
3DES is a Symmetric-Key Cryptosystem.
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