Hello Melissa!

On Monday, May 6, 2002 at 4:29:52 AM you wrote:

> 3DES for the encryption, and SHA1 (SHA160) for the Hash algorithm.
> Still though, if you have the choice to use either S/MIME or PGP, I
> would recommend using PGP - for several reasons.

That's funny, I concur with your choice for HASH, but prefer IDEA for
encryption. Although 3DES (Triple-DES) is still secure, the underlying
DES has been broken. IDEA on the other hand is a very strong algorithm
in itself (and could be souped up like DES just for size).



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