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Re: Lotus Notes Encryption Strategies
From: perry () imsi com (Perry E. Metzger)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 17:00:01 -0500
Software Test Account says:
I have been looking at the methods used by Lotus Notes to do encryption on its mail transfers. It seems to use RC4 (Rivest Cipher) for domestic communications and RC2 for international communications.
No, it just uses RC4 for both and uses 40 bit keys for international work.
In the tech notes that I have, it would seemt that RC2 uses a 128bit key and RC4 uses a 256bit key. Both these keys seem rather small in comparison to something like PGP's 1028bit key. Is this a valid concern/criticism?
No, because the key lengths between the methods are not commensurate. .pm
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- Re: Lotus Notes Encryption Strategies Perry E. Metzger (Mar 14)
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