From: Narayan Raghu <narry@geocities.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:26:02 +0800
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: new 448 bit key by Indian firm
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Bill Stewart wrote:
> 
> At 03:43 AM 11/3/98 +0530, Narayan Raghu wrote:
> >            Indian firm unveils 448-bit encryption
> 
> 448 bits sounds a lot like MD5-based encryption - perhaps Luby-Rackoff
> or MDC?
> Or a homegrown system, doing successive MD5s or something?
> MD5 is no longer the safest hash these days....
> 
>                                 Thanks!
>                                         Bill

Nopes.

It's an  implementation of blowfish.

you might get some info at www.signotron.com
the guy at the fair claimed that it's the strongest existing
implementation of cryptography available in the world to date .. and he
was no "sales" guy - seemed technical enough ... 

what this s/w seems to be doing is that it gets into ur windows OS,
(works ONLY on windows) and everytime you "save" a file, it captures it,
encrypts it, and stores it .. so nothing on your disc is ever left
unencrypted.

ofcourse there must be a lot of such packages in the US .. but the
novelty here, according to this guy was that it was developed outside
the US, and it's price (USD 40) ....


rgds
nar