Re^3: What *are* the best ways to encrypt data?


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Re^3: What are the best ways to encrypt data?

by Anonymous Monk

on Aug 27, 2004 at 15:30 UTC ( [id://386407]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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The only practical use I've been able to find for this is a situation where a government has banned strong encryption software, but not digest functions. In which case a coder can grab an existing digest function and make themselves a strong encryption program.

If a government falls for that, why not just take integer arithmetic and build a strong encryption program from that?