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Re: expectation of privacy (Re: Symmetric Algorithm)

1997-10-30 19:08:52
At 12:40 AM 10/31/97 GMT, Adam Back wrote:
      
   ROT13 demonstrates almost no expectation of privacy :-)
   
   Personally I would find 128+ bit symmetric ciphers to be much better
   for _enforcing_ expectation of privacy.
   
Your request for an algorithm identifier for ROT-13 has been duly noted. It
might be better if I generalized it in the spec to ROT-N, where N is a
128-bit number.

        Jon



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