17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 06:06:21PM -0500, Steve Dunlop wrote: | The white paper on the MSDN web site says it uses | DESX (no explaination as to what the X is) and an | RSA public key algorithm to store the symmetric keys, | which are random for each file. | | So what's DESX? DESX is where you xor the output of a des block with the key. Has some interesting properties which McCurley? showed in Crypto 97 proceedings. Adam -- "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -Hume