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I would mostly say that it's just slow and AES is a much more modern and faster (partly due to hardware acceleration built into modern chips) that is already bu
by penguin359 2y ago
I would mostly say that it's just slow and AES is a much more modern and faster (partly due to hardware acceleration built into modern chips) that is already built info Firefox to support TLS anyways. There are some known attacks against 3DES now, but nothing that completely breaks it yet. And, since this is just for local storage, primarily, it shouldn't be as vulnerable as using 3DES for TLS channel encryption.
- N-Krause 2y agoThanks, even tho the comment above signaled sarcasm, the explanation was helpful for me, as I really had no idea what 3DES means and why it could be problematic.
- Dalewyn 2y agoI shudder to think that even a simple Google query leading to a Wikipedia article was too much effort here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_DES https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_DES
- b112 2y agoAny "simple" Google query now means pages of nonsense answers, promoted sites, AI "help", before you even get to a cogent result. Much better to just talk to others than use Google.
- Scoundreller 2y agoReddit, got it. and Google and quora are in cahoots, right?
- echoangle 2y agoWhen I google „TripleDES“, the first result is a box showing the Wikipedia article on Triple DES. Click on that and you’re done.
- lupusreal 2y agoCreate a search keyword for Wikipedia. Then you can type "wiki whatever" into your address bar and be taken right to Wikipedia without the google middleman.
- andrepd 2y agoAgree with the sentiment, but that's a Wikipedia link. Wikipedia is (as of yet) immune to LLM slop
- nneonneo 2y agoMeh...not immune, just resistant. There's unfortunately a big difference. LLM slop is coming in at the corners, typically on articles that are less well-patrolled.
- dspillett 2y ago> promoted sites, AI "help" I've been experimenting with Kagi for those reasons (amongst others) and finding it works well. Far from ideal for all as it isn't free after 100 queries, but it seems to be a workable solution to the problem for me for now.
- N-Krause 2y agoThe problem wasn't that a google search was to much effort, I just happened to be in the comments and saw this right with an explanation below it. I actually read up on it quite a bit afterwards. Feels very unwarranted to just assume laziness into a simple thank you for information spreading.
- wtallis 2y agoFor a password manager, whether a cipher is fast or slow could mean something entirely different than for something that has to encrypt and decrypt large amounts of data. Cycles per byte is probably completely irrelevant here and I'd expect performance to basically be a function of how many cache misses (both data and code) are incurred to decrypt a single password.