Re: encryption decryption without mcrypt?
| From: | Lewis Bergman | Date: | Thu, 24 Aug 2000 21:22:26 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: encryption decryption without mcrypt? | ||
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On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Brian Huddleston wrote:
> And just to reiterate Dean's point. The numbers used to generate the pad
> must be truly random. Really.
> Otherwise your security begins and ends with how good your random number
> generator is...the usual answer
> being, not very. So you end up being not much better off than Rot13ing it.
>
> Use a real encryption algorhytm if you are serious about it at all.
>
> Brian Huddleston
> Huddleston Consulting
>
Like I said in my original message. I didn't write it, don't email me about it..
Didn't examine whether or not it would suit your paticular purpose. If you
thought it wasn't usefull, get to coding.
--
Lewis Bergman
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