Comment Re:56 bit DES? (Score 1) 43

by moskau on Sunday July 12, 2009 @03:03PM (#28668897) Attached to: New Elliptic Curve Cryptography Record

3DES runs the second round backwards, which enables the "meet in the middle" attacks.

You mean because the second key is used with the decryption operation? Why would a meet in the middle attack not be possible if three encryption operations were used?

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