Glossary: Change Records, Cryptography and PKI
3DES (Triple DES)
Also written: Triple DES, TDEA
An old symmetric block cipher that runs DES three times. NIST has disallowed it for encryption since 2024, so a card terminal still using it, like the café's, must be upgraded.
Where the book teaches it
Related terms
DES (Data Encryption Standard)AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)block cipherdeprecated