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Re: encrypted tapes (was Re: Papers about "Algorithm hiding" ?)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Thu Jun 9 09:39:53 2005

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From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: astiglic@okiok.com, perry@piermont.com
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Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 17:06:03 +1200

astiglic@okiok.com writes:

>I saw allot of requirements by security auditors that looked pretty silly.

"Must use 128-bit RSA encryption" has to be the all-time favourite.

One I saw recently was a requirement for using X9.17 key management... in SSL.

Peter.

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