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- Key Period Data
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- The users may select between 4 and 999 Key NUMBERS.
- Each Key number is in the Range 1 to 2,147,483,647.
- Although, numbers larger than 65,000 are superior.
- Generally, the more numbers, the larger the period
- and more complex is the cipher. The period is:
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- Period = (2 ^ 30) ^ (the number of keys)
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- Where "^" indicates "raised to a power".
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- Low Security
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- For Low Security 4 to 18 keys are recommended.
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- High Security
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- For Low Security 19 to 999 keys are recommended.
- Generally, the more the better; and the more often changed
- the better.
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- For 19 keys the period is approxiately (2^571) or about
- (2^256) times the period of the National Bureau of Standards
- DES algorithm. But, this may not be enough for very long
- messages or if the key is used many times.
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