Today, Karthik Bhargavan and Gaetan Leurent from Inria have unveiled a new attack on Triple-DES, SWEET32, Birthday attacks on 64-bit block ciphers in TLS and OpenVPN. It has been assigned CVE-2016-2183. This post gives a bit of background and describes what OpenSSL is doing. For more details, see their website. Because DES (and triple-DES) has only a 64-bit block size, birthday attacks are a real