Ben wrote:
marius wrote:
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Not quite true. Encrypting each message twice would not increase the
effective key size to 112 bits.
There is an attack named meet in the middle which will make the
effective key size to be just 63 bits.
?? 56 bits plus a little, surely.
The `meet in the
Amir Herzberg wrote:
The `meet in the middle` attack works against double encryption; that's
why Triple DES is performing three DES operations with two keys.
Some variants use 3 keys, in fact.
Cheers,
Ben.
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There is no
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On 4 Feb 2002, at 3:09, Peter Gutmann wrote:
It is accepted practice among security people that you
generate your own private key. It is also, unfortunately,
accepted practice among non-security people that your CA
generates your private key for you and then mails it to you
as a
