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Mok-Kong Shen (mok-kong.shen@stud.uni-muenchen.de)
Tue, 06 Oct 1998 08:53:59 +0100
Anonymous wrote:
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> Look at http://www.jawstech.com, and follow the link "Jaws - Security
> Stronghold" which describes the technology. Here you find:
> : For a message scrambled with 40-bit key encryption, it would take
> : 1,099,511,627,776 guesses to decrypt it, according to Robert Kubbernus,
> : CEO and chairman of Jaws, in Calgary, Alberta. For a message encrypted
> : with a 4,096-bit key, there isn't even a name for the number of guesses
> : it would take, he says.
> :
> : "For a 56-bit key, there are 72 trillion combinations," Kubbernus
> : says. "For 4,096-bit key encryption, there are 411 commas in the number
> : that represents the number of combinations. We are way past the last
> : scientific number defined."
How can key length alone (without the quality of the algorithm) be
equivalent to strength of a crypto product??
M. K. Shen
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