[openbeos] Re: CVS and SSH -- which versions?

> DES is an older encryption algorithm. It is considered less secure than 
> 3DES and blowfish, which come with 'standard' SSH.

Let's not talk about what's secure. 

DES is less secure than triple DES, but it all depends on what you encrypt, the 
size of your key, how many cribs(?) you leave to discover and how often you use 
the same key. It also depends on the actions of the message,  if the actions 
can be recorded you have a giveaway about the message is(not everybody realize 
that). 
If I can discover that some sequence sent to a certain machine means ftp to 
ftp.cdrom.com, I'll have a ball compared to doing a brute force attack on the 
encrypted data you sent. The resulting traffic after a sequence of encrypted 
traffic usually is a givaway about some things included in the message 
(ftp/telnet/http/ssh adress).

It's all in the eye of the beholder...
/Fredrik Holmqvist

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