On Jan 31, 2008, at 5:15 PM, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Niall wrote:
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Unless there is some weird legislative standard which says that
encryption is
fine for transmission of data over open IP networks, but is not
fine for
resundant data held on permanent storage.
OK.. but what encryption? and how many bytes of key are mandatory? 1
byte, 64 bytes or ?
I do not pretend to know the answer, but for me if its really secure
it doesn't go over an IP network I don't care how many bytes are in
the encryption key.
The IP (INTERNET) network was never meant to be a secure way of
transferring data. *MAYBE* if its a private one and there are
appropriate safe guards but *NOT* the Internet.
I heard of a place in Switzerland that used a new kind of encryption
that is anybody even copied(looked) at the data the the receiver was
notified and the data was effectively vaporized. I believe the Swiss
believe in security and when they go to this extreme just to transmit
vote type data you can believe its secure.
Ed
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