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Re: is 3des secure??



Petro wrote/napisał[a]/schrieb:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 12:17:32PM +1100, Steve Smith wrote:
> > 3DES is generally considered strong enough.  However, it is slow, and
> > can effect performance.  Try doing large 'scp's and switch between
> 
>     DES/3DES was designed to be implemented in hardware, doing a
>     software-only implementation is going to be slow. 

Current DES implementations aren't so slow, they reach millions of
encryptions per sencond on current hardware.

Alex



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