| From: | Paul Hill |
| Date: | 3 Aug 2000 at 21:03:16 |
| Subject: | Re: Programming encryption (poss OT) |
On 02-Aug-00 22:10:33, G.A.Griggs wrote:
>Hello Paul
>On 02-Aug-00, you wrote:
>>
>> XPK (the compression library) supports encription also. If you use XFH you
>> can create encrypted filesystems (of course, nobody here would have
>> anything dodgy they'd want to keep secret from the government, would they,
>> eh?)
>>
>IIRC about 18 years ago some Welsh bloke came up with an unbreakable system
>for Z80 based micro's the MOD squashed it ,becasuse they were scared of
>Russian spy's sending digitally encrypted messages with the system and the
>British would not be able to Decrypt them, so unless they have had a change
>of policy in the mean time you wont be able to hide it from the
>government.
If you encrypt with a decent algorithm (say IDEA) and a large keysize (say
2048 bits) it's uncrackable. Well, it would take 100s of thousands of
years :). IIRC the Military use 1024 bits.
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