[Cryptography] Boing Boing pushing an RSA Conference boycott

[Bill Stewart]

At 12:48 PM 1/15/2014, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>What then should we do about all the folk clinging to 3DES? How 
>about the people who stuck with MD5? How about the people who have 
>not junked SHA-1?

Ignoring Phill's perfectly reasonable main point, what's wrong with 3DES?
Sure, it's clunky, takes lots of bit-twiddling, is a good bit slower 
and larger than AES, and only gives you ~112 bits of security for 
your 168 bits of keys, but is there anything wrong with it other than 
being not as good as some of the alternatives?  (Ok, and maybe a bit 
of power analysis risk, depending on your implementation.)  It's not 
like MD5 where there are theoretical attacks that make it much weaker?