Sweet32

cryptography

A 2016 attack exploiting birthday bounds on 64-bit block ciphers like 3DES.

Sweet32 showed that ciphers with a 64-bit block, such as 3DES and Blowfish, leak data once enough traffic is encrypted under one key, due to block collisions. It drove deprecation of 3DES in TLS.

Also known as: Sweet32, CVE-2016-2183

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