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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:01
David Honig (honig@sprynet.com)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 14:10:50 -0700
At 11:41 AM 8/24/98 -0600, Michael Paul Johnson wrote:
>At 02:36 PM 8/24/98 +0100, Andy Brown wrote:
>>you? The reason I ask is that I'm having to do some development with
>MS-CAPI right now
>>and outside the USA we only have the weak 40-bit RC4 and RC2 to use.
>
>I suppose that if you have to work with the MS-CAPI, you could build up
>longer effective key lengths at the cost of more processing time... but why
>not use another crypto library and get a cipher with a longer key in the
>first place?
Almost certainly because them fine folks in the BXA/NSA will object...
MS CAPI has also been criticized for various security issues, incl.
closed source, swap issues on OSs that can't lock pages, and general
MS incompetence which is intolerable in a security app. I personally
have no opinion.
There is a secret message embedded in the phosphor of this period.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:11:01