Detailed Instructions: In this task, we ask you to rewrite a sentence in simple English without changing its general meaning. Essentially, you want to make the sentence easier to read by using simpler words, utilizing more straightforward sentence structures, and omitting non-essential information etc.
Q: In cryptography , Triple DES ( 3DES or TDES ) , officially the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm ( TDEA or Triple DEA ) , is a symmetric-key block cipher , which applies the DES cipher algorithm three times to each data block .
A:
In cryptography , Triple DES is a block cipher created from the Data Encryption Standard ( DES ) cipher by using it three times .