17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
5:17 p.m.
Jay Prime Positive says:
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.
Its far simpler to encrypt your message with multiple systems, one after another, than to break it up in the manner you suggest, and the security is in fact better that way than in the manner you suggest. Perry