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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!hri.com!enterpoop.mit.edu!linus!alliant!merk!works!hagopes
  2. From: hagopes@works.uucp (Yinco Schmeer)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.crypt
  4. Subject: tripple encrypt
  5. Message-ID: <oye4wB7w165w@works.uucp>
  6. Date: 9 Jan 93 01:43:11 GMT
  7. Organization: The Works BBS - Informational Archives - Est. 1985
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  10. >>They suggest using triple encryption for key distribution.<<
  11. (Steven Bellovin)
  12.  
  13. I was under the impression that Double and Tripple encryption was no more 
  14. secure than single encryption. I believe that there was a mathmatical 
  15. proof of this...
  16.                                         -Hagopes
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