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Subject: Re: ChessBase Gmbh and Rebel/Schröder BV on the e-market - sortof

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 14:10:19 01/09/02

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On January 09, 2002 at 17:03:06, Roy Eassa wrote:

>Lose what, the Palm?  The data is pretty strongly encrypted (512-bit Blowfish,
>or something like that),

512-bit Blowfish doesn't exist AFAIK, even TwoFish is only
specced up to 256-bits.

>(Of course, each competing
>program uses its own encryption scheme.)

I wouldn't trust a program that uses it's own encryption scheme
for data that sensitive. AES, Blowfish, TwoFish, 3DES or so
are trustable, but in general most of these things use some
homegrown algorithms developed by someone who understands sht
about encryption. Thanks, but no thanks.

Isn't there still a risk of loss or being stolen at the moment
the key is punched in or so?

--
GCP



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