Re: Encryption for a program.

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From: Chris Rutter
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 00:00

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Rob Kendrick <rob@kiwisoftware.demon.com.uk> wrote:

> PGP will do the trick.  Accept nothing less. :)

 This sounds somewhat contrived; why would you want to use a
specific implementation of a cipher?  There are are a variety
of acceptable block and stream ciphers that could be used
for this purpose (IDEA, Blowfish, Twofish, etc.), but all of
them are flawed by the simple problem that the `key' required
to unlock the software can be spread by mouth.

-- 
Chris <chris@fluff.org>                         ( http://www.fluff.org/chris )

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