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- Newsgroups: sci.crypt
- Path: sparky!uunet!nntp.telebit.com!phr
- From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin)
- Subject: Re: My book
- In-Reply-To: sspy@west.darkside.com's message of 9 Jan 93 09:55:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <PHR.93Jan10233635@napa.telebit.com>
- Sender: news@telebit.com
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- Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA
- References: <LeT4wB1w165w@west.darkside.com>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 07:36:35 GMT
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- In article <LeT4wB1w165w@west.darkside.com> sspy@west.darkside.com (mshannon) writes:
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- I have concluded that using RSA keys longer than 200 digits and triple
- encrypting the DES (360 bit keyspace?) are totally unnecessary for the
- average person and small business owner. I believe that MailSafe provides
- more than enough security.
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- Maybe if you don't know that triple DES encryption gives at most
- three times 56 = 168 bits of key space, you're not qualified to
- recommend to people what kind of cryptography to use.
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