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  2. From: "James E. Fuller" <jef@ix.netcom.com>
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  4. Subject: Re: String Encryption
  5. Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 02:06:22 -0700
  6. Organization: Fuller & Stone
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  16. Kazimir Kylheku wrote:
  17. > 
  18. > .... There is no such thing as ``one way encryption''. 
  19. I thought that the phrase "one-way encryption" referred to those 
  20. methods, such as RSA, wherein the encryption key is different 
  21. from the decryption key (in the case of RSA, they're symmetric).
  22.