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by tialaramex 367 days ago
CBC mode of what ? IDEA maybe ? Are you here to go to bat for IDEA because it's in better shape than RC4 (likely because nobody cares) ?
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Even DES-EDE is better than RC4.
3DES? I guess. People banged on it a lot more than IDEA, which is good, even on your worst days banging on things has potential to shake loose anything poorly put together. But as a "path dependency" I think it might teach an even worse lesson than RC4 did.

Edited: Sorry the last sentence was garbled nonsense originally, maybe it's the heat here. Or my brain is gradually deteriorating :/

I don't see how that could be the case. The major problem with DES-EDE is shared by all the 8-byte-block ciphers, and the fix was simply to upgrade. The problem with RC4 is much more fundamental.