Hi Leif Monday, October 20, 2003, 2:22:49 PM, you wrote:
LG> Ahhh. Hence my confusion over your question. I honestly can't think of LG> a situation where five people would share a key. That's why I posed my question in the first place :) Neither can I. LG> I can see in a LG> corporate situation where five people might be on a corporate keyring, LG> but each with their own sub-key. Or if each had individual keys, but there was a corporate ADK that each message was also encrypted with. LG> Yes, if you wanted to layer encryption, you could recursively feed the LG> output of one crypto to the next. Again, why? Unless you're maybe LG> passing high level secrets, then maybe, but for standard end users? I work on security issues at several levels. I've been involved in discussions where multiple encryption was considered, both as a research issue and as a means of adding protection within a particular setup we had. For the end user though, a 2048-bit key provides more than adequate protection in most cases. Cheers, -- Vishal ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
