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Brute-Force-Attack on Triple-DES with Reduced Key Space Level 2

by Nina Schöllhammer, published on 10/14/2010

In present-days knowledge Triple-DES is secure if a really random key is used. If the key is not random and a part of the key may be guessed, it is possible to get knowledge of the rest of the key with a feasible bruteforce attack.