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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