18 Dec
2003
18 Dec
'03
8:17 a.m.
Bill Stewart writes:
448 bits sounds a lot like MD5-based encryption - perhaps Luby-Rackoff or MDC? Or a homegrown system, doing successive MD5s or something? MD5 is no longer the safest hash these days....
More likely Blowfish for two reasons i) the article mentioned blowfish at the bottom (;-), and ii) blowfish keys can be up to 448 bits. Could be snake oil, or could be result of letting marketroid near press release. The press release was very confused in general. Adam