encryption ciphers

2010-06-17 Thread jim sims
I'm going to use an encryption feature in a project but I want to make sure it will be available for OS X and for WIndows machines. A wide variety of encryption ciphers seem to be available when I do put the cipherNames I have little knowledge about the merits or availability of ciphers, can

Re: encryption ciphers

2010-06-17 Thread Jeff Massung
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:22 AM, jim sims s...@ezpzapps.com wrote: A wide variety of encryption ciphers seem to be available when I do put the cipherNames I have little knowledge about the merits or availability of ciphers, can anyone provide recommendations for a particular cipher

Re: encryption ciphers

2010-06-17 Thread Kee Nethery
My understanding is that AES is the worst (oldest), DES is better, DES3 is better, BLOWFISH is quick and simple and a good compromise between performance and security. I know nothing about RC or CAST, but I'm pretty sure RC is just a derivative of AES. Security is not a question of is it

Re: encryption ciphers

2010-06-17 Thread Bob Sneidar
It's also a question of how valuable to others your resources are. How to make a car run on seawater is a document very valuable to a great many people, both those who want to exploit it, and those who want to make it go away. How to put gas in your tank not so much. All of them are going to be

Re: encryption ciphers

2010-06-17 Thread Jim Sims
On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:13 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: It's also a question of how valuable to others your resources are. How to make a car run on seawater is a document very valuable to a great many people, both those who want to exploit it, and those who want to make it go away. How to put gas

Re: encryption ciphers

2010-06-17 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yeah it's legal. The good stuff they won't even let us get close to. And yes, they do still control the kind of encryption that can be publicly used, as well as the kinds of encryption that can be made available to international markets. Don't ask me how I know. ;-) Bob On Jun 17, 2010, at