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by kevin_thibedeau 2196 days ago
3DES is still military grade.
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user5994461 2196 days ago
No it's not. It stopped being approved for usage by NIST a few years ago.
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Twirrim 2196 days ago
Really? 3DES still appears here, https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/block-cipher-techniques, with DES and Skipjack being called out as deprecated.
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user5994461 2196 days ago
That page says that 3DES is prohibited from usage in new applications and is prohibited for encrypting more than 1 GB of data, since 2017.

The attached documents have additional information on implementation and (non) usage, including deadline to migrate legacy military systems. It's sadly quite cumbersome to go through the tens of PDF to find the relevant information.

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kevin_thibedeau 2196 days ago
112-bit keys are still allowed precisely because of 3DES.
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