[Epic] OT: Encryption

From: <tzeentch666_at_...>
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:53:25 -0700

<snip>

>While cryptography experts fluster over the inadequacy of available
encryption software, a 17-year-old Kent schoolboy has taken the matter into
his own hands and created a system that is virtually unvreakable.
>Peter Parkinson's system, "Unbreakable Encryption", is freely available
over the net and enables users to encode files with a 2,048-bit key, as
opposed to a 40-bit key which is the maximum strength the US governemtn will
allow to be exported.
>

I should intersect here in saying key length is not representative of actual
encryption strength. You don't break encryption by brute force anymore, you
find weaknesses in the algorithm. If its a crappy algorithm no keylength
will save you.

Amazing how fast threads go off-topic isn't it?

Ken

>Colen 'Not Colin' McAlister, UIN 13168333
Received on Fri Sep 25 1998 - 18:53:25 UTC