👉 Okay, let’s tackle this… frankly rather dramatic-sounding mouthful of a filename – 3des cebc_null.cap.conf! Strap yourselves into your gigagles (that would be gigagles as in, you're probably confused).
Basically, this isn't the name of a very fancy chihuahua, I assure you. Instead, we're venturing deep into the slightly paranoid and technically complicated world of… let’s just call it "stuff that needs to stay secret until, well... probably really carefully and covertly, until now." Let's unpack this beast, piece by painstaking piece: 3des: That stands for Triple-Data Encryption Standard. Sounds impressive, right? Think of a supercharged, very old, voicemail system. Basically, that means the information within the thing that is being contained by this filename (CAP – we’ll get to it) was scrambled into gibberish using what's now considered somewhat outdated, but still reasonably effective, encryption. 3DES, because of its slightly upgraded version, is more robust than the original DES! cebc: This is where things start getting… a little weird. CBC stands for Cipher Block Cipher. Again – mouthful. Think about it like this: each piece of scrambled data is checked against the piece before it. That’s how it's supposed to encrypt the whole thing, and make sure that if one bit gets messed with,
