This policy setting determines whether Triple DES cipher is disabled. 3DES is widely used in the payment ecosystem as a method for protecting account data during transmission and storage. In July 2017, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposed that the 3DES protocol be deprecated. Upon deprecation, NIST would no longer consider 3DES to be a strong ciphersuite. Counter Measure: Configure this setting to disable 3DES. Fix: (1) REG: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\SCHANNEL\Ciphers\Triple DES 168!Enabled