DES
DES
In cryptography, Triple DES is a block cipher formed from the Data Encryption Standard (DES) cipher by using it three times. Triple DES is also known as TDES or, more standard, TDEA (Triple Data Encryption Algorithm). The non-standard convention to use DES (standard) when we actually mean DEA (algorithm) is so widespread that in order to avoid confusion we use it in this article. On the other hand, since there are variations of TDES which use two different keys (2TDES) and three different keys (3TDES) the non-standard abbreviation 3DES is confusing and should be avoided.
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