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To: ecommerceman who wrote (8938)	9/6/1999 8:32:00 AM
From: cm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11417

Nice Article, E-C-Writer... And it's always good to see quotes from Bruce Schneier of Counterpane Systems who, as we recall, was compensated with WAVX stock for some (consulting) work he did for the company a while back. Best Regards, c m

To: ecommerceman who wrote (8938)	9/6/1999 10:42:00 AM
From: Bill Fischofer	Respond to of 11417

Re: Encryption My understanding is that Embassy uses DES (triple DES) rather than RSA. DES itself is next to useless for real protection (see the book "Cracking DES" by the EFF) and I doubt if triple DES will hold out for much longer either. This is obviously part of a larger public-policy debate, but it does argue that any encryption scheme had better be flexible enough to accommodate new ciphers and longer keylengths over its commercial lifespan since this will clearly be needed if the encryption is to have more than a cosmetic purpose.