Weak SSL 3DES Cipher Suites (CVE-2016-2183)

3DES is a widely supported stream cipher often preferred by TLS servers and other servers using encrypted sessions. Recent cryptanalysis results one of which is the SWEET32 exploit biases in the 3DES keystroke to recover repeatedly encrypted plain-texts. As a result 3DES can no longer be seen as providing a sufficient level of security for encrypted sessions.

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