Not to be pedantic but Triple DES could be broken relatively easily by the government, which is why it was replaced with AES. I completely agree with what you a

Not to be pedantic but Triple DES could be broken relatively easily by the government, which is why it was replaced with AES. I completely agree with what you are saying in the post, I just wanted to bring up that Triple DES is considered insecure. Sources: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1003/1003.4085.pdf http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1003/1003.4085.pdf http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/360000/358718/p465-merkle.pdf?ip=130.76.32.78&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&CFID=273598392&CFTOKEN=19340017&__acm__=1360086744_c16b59c9aa99fc881048d57dbb514e4f http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/360000/358718/p465-merkle.pd...