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Foil 39 Secret Key Cryptography

From Remarks on Java and Internet Security Web Certificate CPS616 Enhancement -- Summer 1997 . by Geoffrey C. Fox
This involves a single secret key and standards are DES (Digital Encryption Standard) and IDEA (International Data Encryption Algorithm)
Commercial systems (used in SSL) are RC2 RC4 RC5
  • Note 40 bit RC2 takes a 64 MIP computer one year to break

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