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From: "Leif Svalgaard" <leif@leif.org> > Loyd, you are quite justified not believing this. Modern cryptography > embraces a principle first expressed in 1883 by Jean-Guillaume-Hubert- > Victor-Francois-Alexandre-Auguste Kerckhoffs von Nieuwenhof, namely > that "compromize of the method should not inconvenience the correspondents" > or in modern terms: "the security is solely in the key, not in keeping the > algorithm secret". My thinking is that "compromise of the KEY should not inconvenience the correspondents" either. Nathan M. Andelin www.relational-data.com
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