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Re: What *are* the best ways to encrypt data?

by derby (Abbot)
on Aug 27, 2004 at 12:23 UTC ( [id://386338]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to What *are* the best ways to encrypt data?

There are no best ways ... just some are more sound than others.

<toot-horn>Check out my writeup</toot-horn> - especially the second and last paragraphs.

-derby
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Re^2: What *are* the best ways to encrypt data?
by tbone1 (Monsignor) on Aug 27, 2004 at 12:31 UTC
    There are no best ways ... just some are more sound than others.

    Oh, I dunno. Have you ever read an IRS instruction booklet? That's so encrypted that even they can't decipher it.

    --
    tbone1, YAPS (Yet Another Perl Schlub)
    And remember, if he succeeds, so what.
    - Chick McGee

      That's not because they're oneway hashed ... that's because logic professors have paid off the IRS to write sentences that are impossible to parse into predicate logic, thus providing a tax-payer funded source of test questions.

      ------
      We are the carpenters and bricklayers of the Information Age.

      Then there are Damian modules.... *sigh* ... that's not about being less-lazy -- that's about being on some really good drugs -- you know, there is no spoon. - flyingmoose

      I shouldn't have to say this, but any code, unless otherwise stated, is untested

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