Re: What is the meaning of BIT in Encryption

[Adam Newhard <atnewhard () microstrain com>]

Yeah, that's basically it.  bit 99.9% of the time refers to the number 
of bits in the key length.  like des 128 is a 128 bit key length des 
encryption alg.


Cheetah wrote:

> > > What is the meaning of BIT in Encryption ?
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> > hmm.. unless that is some acronym I never heard before,
> > a bit in encryption is just a bit..  as in "eight bits make a byte".
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> No, what he is thinking of is things like 48-bit encryption, 128-bit
> encryption, etc.
> Personaly I'm wondering about this myself. The more bits the stronger the
> encryption, but that's
> as far as my understanding goes.
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> > > How is asymmetric encrytion work? Is there a simple ducument to
> > > describe this kind of encryption?
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> > There a probably a million.
> > Try this:  go to www.howstuffworks.com and use the search function
> > to search for:    public key cryptography
> >
> > That will give you quite a lot to start with.
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