Fred wrote (talking about NSA):

>  56-bit DES is no problem.
>  56-bit restricted RSA is no problem.
>  3DES is not allowed.
>  In general, they seemed to imply 56 bits of anything is no
>problem, but I'll have to double check that. Probably if there were
>such as thing as 128-bit rot13 is would not be allowed.  They seem
>preoccupied with bits.

You seem to mean that 3DES is not harder to crack than any 56-bit
encryption.
I know that DES cipher texts have been been cracked but do you have example
where 3DES was cracked?

Nicolas Roumiantzeff.

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