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+// Copyright 2013 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package des_test
+
+import "crypto/des"
+
+func ExampleNewTripleDESCipher() {
+	// NewTripleDESCipher can also be used when EDE2 is required by
+	// duplicating the first 8 bytes of the 16-byte key.
+	ede2Key := []byte("example key 1234")
+
+	var tripleDESKey []byte
+	tripleDESKey = append(tripleDESKey, ede2Key[:16]...)
+	tripleDESKey = append(tripleDESKey, ede2Key[:8]...)
+
+	_, err := des.NewTripleDESCipher(tripleDESKey)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+
+	// See crypto/cipher for how to use a cipher.Block for encryption and
+	// decryption.
+}