Web wiz encryption
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Topic: Web wiz encryption
Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Web wiz encryption
Date Posted: 05 May 2003 at 12:39pm
| I see webwiz is getting to 160bit encryption, I am to understand some countries have limits to encyrption in terms of lengths of bits, do you know what the limits are anyone? |
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 05 May 2003 at 1:12pm
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The limits are only for personal encryption like PGP, not for website databases. Martin. |
Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 05 May 2003 at 5:01pm
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Can i ask about encryption? Does 160bit mean theres 160bits per bit of encrypted data? |
Posted By: Nigelo
Date Posted: 05 May 2003 at 6:14pm
160bits is the size of the encryption KEY that is used in the algorythm to change or rather encrypt the original data. ------------- Hope this helps Nigel |
Gullanian wrote:Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 05 May 2003 at 6:24pm
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It means that there are 2^160 possible keys that could fit the "lock" where the password is stored. The algorythm expands 16 32-bit words of message text to 80 32-bit subkey words. And, after 80 rounds of the hash function are applied to the 160-bit value, the original value and the result value are combined together (using 32-bit addition with no carries between words) to make the hash operation noninvertible. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: javaengines.dk
Date Posted: 05 May 2003 at 6:30pm
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Hashing isn't really encryption because it's one-way, and there are no export/import/use restriction on hash functions (since you can't use that to store or send encrypted messages, only check for integrity). ------------- *** For Java games and Java related resources go to http://www.javaengines.dk - http://www.javaengines.dk *** |