Do we have conflicting premises about what SSH is? I'm pretty sure you're dodging and deflecting from the actual issues here.
They were clearly suggesting that there exists a publicly available tool to attack this algorithm. They clearly didn't care one way or the other about whether it was used in passwords. What they actually cited was vulnerabilities in network services.
What are you talking about? No there isn't. There is no "publicly available tool to attack 3DES". Hashcat is a password cracker. You know what else it supports? AES. Is AES broken?
It's very difficult for me to imagine a way you could have read my remarks in good faith and come to that conclusion. I hope someday you figure this out, I guess I have no hope of explaining it.
I'm not going back and forth with you if you're not going to discuss the thrust of our disagreement. I am not wading into this minutia with you. I see the game you are playing to evade the subject I am trying to discuss; I'm not interested in playing.
They were clearly suggesting that there exists a publicly available tool to attack this algorithm. They clearly didn't care one way or the other about whether it was used in passwords. What they actually cited was vulnerabilities in network services.
You are being disingenuous. Cut it out.