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Re: Absolute Snakeoil
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R. A. Hettinga)
Sat Sep 23 13:02:41 2000
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From: "R. A. Hettinga" <rah@shipwright.com>
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:18:29 -0700
From: Somebody
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Subject: Re: Absolute Snakeoil
>From the SafeMessage Faq
What level of encryption is used in SafeMessage?
Unfortunately, there is no straightforward answer to this question,
because "level"
doesn't mean anything in the encryption world.
[le snippage]
The bottom line is that there is no straightforward and concise answer
to your
question. We at AFTI have analyzed a number of encryption systems, and
we believe
SafeMessage to be more secure than any of the competition. But we can't
provide a
simple bit-count, for example, because our system encrypts the same data
with
several different ciphers and keys, some symmetric, some asymmetric from
large
fields, complicating the math of arriving at said bitcount.
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