Re: 256 Bit Encryption for Secure Email and Secure Online File Storage

2001-12-03 Thread Bill Stewart
At 04:31 PM 12/01/2001 -0800, Meyer Wolfsheim wrote: >Another proprietary key format. Why not base such a system on OpenPGP? OpenPGP, ClosedPGP, GPG, PGP2.x, and X.509 all have blazingly ugly data formats, especially for keys. The main advantages of recycling one of the N variations on PGP form

Re: 256 Bit Encryption for Secure Email and Secure Online File Storage

2001-12-02 Thread Jonny Weron
>Another proprietary key format. Why not base such a system on OpenPGP? > >Hmm. AES-256 with SHA-256? Children, what's wrong with the balance >in this system? > >How does a user verify authenticity of another user's public key? > >Aside from being incompatible with anything else on the net, how is

Re: 256 Bit Encryption for Secure Email and Secure Online File Storage

2001-12-02 Thread CDR Anonymizer
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --=_NextPart_000_0006_01C17AEB.9F8D37E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit The AES-256 is used independently from SHA-256 and for a different purpose. One is used for encryption, the other for has

Re: 256 Bit Encryption for Secure Email and Secure Online File Storage

2001-12-01 Thread Meyer Wolfsheim
Another proprietary key format. Why not base such a system on OpenPGP? Hmm. AES-256 with SHA-256? Children, what's wrong with the balance in this system? How does a user verify authenticity of another user's public key? Aside from being incompatible with anything else on the net, how is this di