On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 00:37 +0530, Parijat Garg wrote: > @Dinesh: By definition, a brute-force attack is just cycling through > all the possible keys. Therefore, in general, greater the bits in the > key, the more combinations that require to be tested and hence harder > the brute-force attack. This is independent of DES or 3-DES or any > other key-based encryption algorithm.
Pfleeger. It has the whole ago and in layman's terms. Double DES is as secure as DES with 57bit key while Triple DES does give more security. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
