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Sascha Kiefer sk at intertivity.com
Thu Jun 2 14:14:32 CEST 2005


Johan Wevers schrieb:

>Kiefer, Sascha wrote:
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>>In the cas the public key supports only
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>>IDEA, 3DES
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>>my program will raise an error because the those algorithms are not
>>permitted by the policy
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>Such ideas can only come from dumb manager-like control freak system
>administrators, usually with insufficient knowledge to make a balanced
>choice in these matters anyway. Why would you want a central person
>to do something like this at all?
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Well, a bank might send confidential data to there customers.
And the country of the bank - like luxembourg - enforces by law that 
confidential data must be
encrypted using at least AES then the banks policy must be setup this way.



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