Losing the Code War by Stephen Budiansky

[Ben Laurie]

Amir Herzberg wrote:
> The `meet in the middle` attack works against double encryption; that's
> why Triple DES is performing three DES operations with two keys.

Some variants use 3 keys, in fact.

Cheers,

Ben.

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