> I urge you strongly to advise against that. Although it might be possible to > downgrade your encryption to 40bit I'd like to make you aware of the fact > that DES which is 56 bit encryption if I'm not mistaken was cracked several > times by brute force in UNDER 22 hours by the distributed.net people > (www.distributed.net). Therefore I would NOT consider 40 bits encryption safe > and I feel obligated to make you aware of that. You are warned now :-) so do > as you please.
Erm, yeah true.... but by their own admission they used the equivalant of 160000 PII 266Mhz machines to accomplish this. If you think someone is going to want your data and has those kinda resources available then yeah go for higher. However if thats your worry where are you going to stop in the length of your key? If your that paranoid then it shouldn't be using public networks in the first place!! -- Jon Farmer Systems Programmer, Entanet www.enta.net Tel 01952 428969 Mob 07763 620378 PGP Key available, send email with subject: Send PGP Key -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
