I haven't heard of "Triple DES", has anyone else?
DES is classic cryptography, been around forever, and was used to secure things like interbank communications, etc. It's a public standard, you can pull the code for it out of such mundane texts as "Numerical Recipes in C", and uses a 56-bit (or 64-bit, depending on how you count) key. It may be fine for normal, everyday use, but is no longer generally accepted as secure for truly sensitive information. Triple-DES is kind of like running through normal DES three times, which makes it much, much securer, though some folks still think it isn't secure enough.
But for you and me and anything we're likely to send from our PDA of choice, triple-DES is just fine.
For now. ;-) |
