http://www.idg.net/idgns/2000/01/24/NECClaimsWorldsStrongestEncryption System.shtml ------------------------------- CUT --------------------------------- NEC Claims World's Strongest Encryption System by Martyn Williams, IDG News Service\Tokyo Bureau January 24, 2000 TOKYO (01/24/2000) - NEC Corp. today announced it has developed a new encryption technology, CipherUnicorn-A, which it claims to be the strongest in the world. The technology is based upon common key encryption - in which a single key is used for both the encoding and the decoding functions - but has a twist, explained Hiroshi Miyauchi, research manager at NEC's C&C Media Laboratories. As in other common key systems, a randomly generated master key, 128 bits in size, is first created. However, unlike in other systems, this is not used to encrypt or decrypt the file. NEC's system creates a intermediate key of several thousand bits in length from the master key, and that serves as the base for the encryption process. [...] [...] ------------------------------- CUT ---------------------------------
