One other small advantage I can see to using Lotus's crippled encryption. It disguises the fact that a message is actually (double) encrypted with PGP. Attackers have to break the 40 bits before they see the PGP encrypted data. A pecular kind of steganography. (If you leave off the PGP header and trailer, it may be hard to determine which 40 bits are the correct key.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA
Bill Frantz writes:
One other small advantage I can see to using Lotus's crippled encryption. It disguises the fact that a message is actually (double) encrypted with PGP. Attackers have to break the 40 bits before they see the PGP encrypted data.
I don't understand. Are you saying that there's a special benefit to doing superencryption (GAK encryption over non-GAK encryption) when the GAK layer is Lotus Notes ? Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com>
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