[H-GEN] Why bother with root when you can take the box?
Trent WADDINGTON
s337240 at student.uq.edu.au
Thu Sep 11 21:10:25 EDT 2003
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, Benjamin wrote:
> with it is far far worse. What you really want is a key that is long
> compared to the amount of data you're encrypting with it. By encryping
> everything you're actually weakening your key.
Very true, which is one of the reasons why multilevel passwords are a good
idea. You have a long key to encrypt large amounts of data and then you
encrypt that long key with a short key that you can remember. Compared to
the short key, the long key is a small amount of data, so it's more secure
than if you were to encrypt the large amount of data with the small key.
Trent
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