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To: David E. Taylor who wrote (78)	9/12/2000 10:42:09 PM
From: interesting man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 817

David, CERT has alot to do with RIMM's security. biz.yahoo.com

To: David E. Taylor who wrote (78)	9/12/2000 10:55:29 PM
From: Return to Sender	Respond to of 817

CDMA as I understand it is a superior technology but there can be no absolute advantage from one technology to the next that will make it so secure it can't be broken. Probably the best answer will be to take a combination of Biometrics and Speech Recognition for personal identification then combine that with software security provided by those companies that already are on the forefront of supplying it in traditional Internet/email security. That being said I believe RIMM has got a great product. Thanks, RTS

To: David E. Taylor who wrote (78)	9/13/2000 9:50:11 AM
From: Win-Lose-Draw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 817

I haven't heard of "Triple DES", has anyone else? DES is classic cryptography, been around forever, and was used to secure things like interbank communications, etc. It's a public standard, you can pull the code for it out of such mundane texts as "Numerical Recipes in C", and uses a 56-bit (or 64-bit, depending on how you count) key. It may be fine for normal, everyday use, but is no longer generally accepted as secure for truly sensitive information. Triple-DES is kind of like running through normal DES three times, which makes it much, much securer, though some folks still think it isn't secure enough. But for you and me and anything we're likely to send from our PDA of choice, triple-DES is just fine. For now. ;-)