[6463] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
NEC Claims World's Strongest Encryption System - still more snake oil?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Axel H Horns)
Mon Jan 24 14:14:34 2000
From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@t-online.de>
To: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 20:52:15 +0200
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT
Reply-To: horns@t-online.de
Message-ID: <12CoYK-22EY08C@fmrl02.sul.t-online.de>
http://www.idg.net/idgns/2000/01/24/NECClaimsWorldsStrongestEncryption
System.shtml
------------------------------- CUT ---------------------------------
NEC Claims World's Strongest Encryption System
by Martyn Williams, IDG News Service\Tokyo Bureau January 24, 2000
TOKYO (01/24/2000) - NEC Corp. today announced it has developed a new
encryption technology, CipherUnicorn-A, which it claims to be the
strongest in the world.
The technology is based upon common key encryption - in which a
single key is used for both the encoding and the decoding functions -
but has a twist, explained Hiroshi Miyauchi, research manager at
NEC's C&C Media Laboratories. As in other common key systems, a
randomly generated master key, 128 bits in size, is first created.
However, unlike in other systems, this is not used to encrypt or
decrypt the file.
NEC's system creates a intermediate key of several thousand bits in
length from the master key, and that serves as the base for the
encryption process. [...]
[...]
------------------------------- CUT ---------------------------------
