On the Security of 2-Key Triple DES
- Submitting institution
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Royal Holloway and Bedford New College
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 29192242
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1109/TIT.2016.2611003
- Title of journal
- IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
- Article number
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- First page
- 6260
- Volume
- 62
- Issue
- 11
- ISSN
- 0018-9448
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 8
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper is published in a top ranking journal. The paper has a potentially major impact in that it shows that two-key triple DES, an encryption algorithm still in widespread use (despite it being rather old) is even weaker than previously believed. This has already led to increasing pressure on current users to phase out use of the algorithm quickly, and has also led to ISO/IEC to update the guidance it issues on use of encryption algorithms.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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