You're right Howie, the first thing on each encrypted file is the header, CF
has to open it anyway so it's only one more step on the ladder to do a
compare and direct the file to the proper un-encoder. Shouldn't adversely
affect even high production sites.
> > CF uses DES for encryption. This is used because it has good performance
> > while maintaining decent encryption. The "cracker" as you put it simply
> > decrypts DES. If Allaire were to change the encryption algorithm
templates
> > encrypted by the previous algorithm would no longer work unless the
system
> > first interrogated the file to discover it's encryption method. This
would
> > incur an unacceptable performance hit in high volume applications.
>
> Not true. Allaire does not simply encrypt the file as-is...they include a
> custom header to the encrypted file which they use to easily determine the
> encryption method.
>
> Regards,
>
> Howie
>
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