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From:Oovis
Date:3 Aug 2000 at 19:48:07
Subject:Re: Programming encryption (poss OT)

Hello Alan

On 02-Aug-00, you wrote:
> hi,
>
>> Putting the encrypted message in a hunk by itself isn't very secure.
>> It's the equivalent of putting the key under the doormat, far too easy
>> to find.
>
> only if you know about those formats....all government departments
> interested in computer related crime and data retrieval are very very
> uneducated about the Amiga

And yet PaintShop Pro 4 on the PC will load and save IFF files, so the rest of
the world is hardly uneducated about them, now is it? :-/

>
> alan
>



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