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Re: What is the meaning of BIT in Encryption
From: Adam Newhard <atnewhard () microstrain com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 08:22:54 -0500
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 ?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".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.How is asymmetric encrytion work? Is there a simple ducument to describe this kind of encryption?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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