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> the saving grace is that 3DES is still considered secure.

Nobody who wants to do AES-256 rather than AES-128 thinks 3DES is "still secure". 3DES is perhaps 112 bits of useful keyspace but it has 64-bit blocks which was already bad news when DES was invented.

TLS 1.3 doesn't have a 3DES option at all. You can do AES 128 or AES 256 (or ChaCha20).



The USG still considers it secure and that will retard forward progress.


There is an abundance of secure, widely reviewed symmetric ciphers for every imaginable application profile.




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