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Meanings and definitions for 3DES
What does 3DES stand for? What does 3DES mean?
- In cryptography, Triple DES (3DES or TDES), officially the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA or Triple DEA), is a symmetric-key block cipher, which applies the DES cipher algorithm three times to each data block.
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