Re: Is Fax Dead Yet?

Robert Latest wrote:

Joel Koltner wrote:
"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:25:24 -0700, "Joel Koltner"
PGP encrypted e-mail is one heck of a lot more secure than any FAX
transmission!
Even 128-bit encrypted FAX?

OK, that I don't actually know. I'm thinking of the older/run-of-the-mill
machines that don't actually have any high-end encryption features as such...

128 bit -- high-end? Any cryptography system worth its salt can do 1024
bis and up -- it's just that anything beyond 128 or 256 bits is
governmentally restricted in one way or another because that's the limit
of what the NSA computers can crack.

Total nonsense. 128 bits is more than enough depth to make brute
force impossible in any practical time frame, and there's no
restrictions on bit strength by the NSA or any other government
agency.


And with each bit added, they need twice the computing time, so the leap
from 256 bits to 1024 is quite a big one...

robert












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