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Re: [LUG] Encryption was Re: Disk Wiping
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- Subject: Re: [LUG] Encryption was Re: Disk Wiping
- From: Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 18:58:15 +0000
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On Friday, 5 March 2021 08:14:38 GMT Giles Coochey wrote:
>
> Encryption on its own is probably not enough, all the encryption
> algorithms in use 40 years ago are now trivial to decrypt without a key
40 years ago, yes it was 56 bit DES, if you heeded warning from Whitfield D you
shunned 56 bit. DES like ciphers from the 1980s could have been chosen which
are still "not bad" meaning the NSA can crack it.
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