Beverly Caldwell wrote: >"Would encryption have prevented known major breaches?" Actually, no, I >think it would have made the effects worse. If Equifax had encrypted their >data, right now those clowns would be slapping each other on the back and >telling themselves, nothing to worry about, no need to report this to >anyone, eh boys? So the effects would have not been apparent for however >long it took the people who got the data to decrypt it.
If we assume that "encrypted" means "using accepted strong encryption", not "Bob's toy encryption system that any moron could break", then I'm perfectly comfortable with the several billion years of effort required to decrypt the data-I'll be dead by then. You don't find that to be long enough? ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
