1995-12-13 - IDEA encryption
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From: Ben Holiday <ncognito@gate.net>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
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UTC Datetime: 1995-12-13 01:51:33 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 09:51:33 +0800
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From: Ben Holiday <ncognito@gate.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1995 09:51:33 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: IDEA encryption
Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.91.951212174132.26320B-100000@hopi.gate.net>
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The copy of the source for idea (unix) that I have specify's a user key
length of 8 bytes, but allows this to be increased to something larger.
Will increasing the user keylength improve the overall security?
Also, is it worth hashing the user key first, then using the hashed key
as the key for encryption and decryption? Or am I wasting my time?
Last thing -- how secure is unix "rm"? If something is rm'd, is it
really really gone?
Thnks..
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- 1995-12-13 (Wed, 13 Dec 1995 09:51:33 +0800) - IDEA encryption - Ben Holiday <ncognito@gate.net>
- 1995-12-13 (Wed, 13 Dec 1995 11:15:48 +0800) - Re: IDEA encryption - “Mark M.” <markm@omni.voicenet.com>
- 1995-12-13 (Thu, 14 Dec 1995 06:22:46 +0800) - Re: IDEA encryption - Derek Atkins <warlord@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
- 1995-12-14 (Thu, 14 Dec 1995 17:42:51 +0800) - Re: IDEA encryption - Ben Holiday <ncognito@gate.net>