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Re: 3DES keys

>    The modular exponentiation, elliptic curve, and key generator
>    algorithms provide a number of bits of keying material. Use of an
>    algorithm which produces a fewer number of keying bits than required
>    for a selected transform results in less robust security than would
>    otherwise be expected.

Shouldn't this be "fewer than *twice* as many keying bits ..."  ?  

(The 155 bits from the elliptic curve example is only good for 155/2 keying
bits.)
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