17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
Date: Fri, 27 May 1994 14:21:28 -0400 From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com> We are all very dependent on things like MD5 and IDEA, which may or may not actually be secure. We should bear this in mind. If you suspect that some of the non DOD/NSA cyphers might be broken, but you are not ready to employ one-time-pads, then you should threshold you mesages into N parts so that all N are needed to recover the original. Then encrypt each part under a different cypher. Perhaps IDEA, and 3DES would be apropriate. This will not increase the size of your messages very much since you compress before encrypting -- don't you? j'