But if you spend more than $100 of your time investigating third party encryption libs then which is cheaper?
Just my two cents worth. :o) Nahum Wild Incremental Fee Extractor PayGlobal > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Corey Murtagh > Sent: Tuesday, 30 September 2003 08:27 a.m. > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: WinApi Encryption > > > Rohit Gupta wrote: > > > Nicholas, > > > > over the years many have made similar remarks (including > Peter Gutmann), > > so far I havent seen any proof of anyone cracking it.... > anyway - that > > standard encryption is always been regarded as basic. > Check out the web > > site www.pkware.com, click on products then select > "Professional Editon > > with secure desktop". At $100 US, its cheap.... I just > have to call the > > command-line version. It also saves me writing a decryptor > at the other > > end. > > The pro version does have strong encryption, yes. The same > encryption > you can get for free in various crypto libs as it happens. > The standard > version's encryption isn't very strong, and can be cracked in > a matter > of minutes with a known-plaintext attack. Brute force takes a bit > longer, of course. > > > The alternative is to spend days just to download and try > out various > > libs and appelets. > > Or a couple of hours investigating encryption algos and finding a lib > that supports the one that's right for your purposes. All it > takes is a > little bit of research. > > -- > Corey Murtagh > The Electric Monk > "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!" > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
