On Mon, Oct 18, 2004, P. George wrote:

> will it _help_ guard against brute force attempts to simply replace my 
> server key on a daily or weekly basis?
> 
> if so, should my client app be coded to do the same?  or is changing 
> out the server's key sufficient to this end?
> 

If your key sizes are reasonable it isn't feasible to break a *single* server
key using brute force attacks.

Steve.
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