Microsoft has now announced that Cipher DES, which has long been considered insecure, will be removed from Windows in September.

DES encryption leaves SIM cards vulnerable to exploitation A German security researcher has cracked the outdated security used by older SIM cards.

The Triple DES Coprocessor is a Data Encryption Standard (FIPS 46-3) peripheral computing DES and Triple DES (TDES and 3DES) encryption and decryption ...

Triple DES encryption is a highly secure encryption standard used broadly throughout the U.S. "Target does not have access to nor does it store the encryption key within our system.