SSL is offered for many medians, how secure is it? 56bit, 128, 156? i
seen a few sizes, but the strength?

tick

a decient explination. i am not sure how a 1500 bit encryption actually
works. in my simple mind, it would turn 1 bit into 1500 bits. but it
doesnt work like that.

also, can you recommend a good drive encryption program? jsut to...keep
things like the swap and temp files inside the encrypted partitions?

im a newb in this feild, i have been interested for a while in how it
actually works.

tick

Hi,

does anyone know a software which can mount encrypted containers as
drives (like TrueCrypt or FreeOTFE), which runs without installation
from a removable medium ("traveller mode", like TrueCrypt or
FreeOTFE) and which not only runs under Windows 2000 and XP but also
under Windows 98 (neither TrueCrypt nor FreeOTFE do that)?

In article <1165494965.722027.58530@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, Simon
Johnson gmail.com> writes

They are "admissible in evidence in relation to any question as to the
authenticity of the communication or data or as to the integrity of the
communication or data".

Which you may or may not think is the same thing, until you look at the
reality of a keyboard sniffer or keys that are too short, or algorithms
that are used unwisely...

This isn't yet true [that part of RIP 2000 is not yet in force], but the
Home Office are signalling that it may well be soon (and the penalty for
non-compliance will be 5 years for some types of crime)

that will be true, yes

Sergei wrote:

No - that the hashes were random (excepting the case where two blocks of
data to be hashed are the same), not that the data was random.

Which is a property of a properly employed good hash, giving random hashes.

(asuming that a good hash is actually possible ... but that's another story
entirely)