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Military grade Encryption

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:07 am
by xaviertechnology
Hi. I am a newbie at this forum. I need the solution of the problem I am facing. I had to encrypt a password with a healthy encryption algorithm call it 4096 bit based encryption and decrypt it as well. Any clues for such military grade encryption as I want secure password encryption for my application. Prompt reply will be much appreciated.
with warm regards
Xavier Technology.

Re: Military grade Encryption

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:14 am
by alex.barylski
Depending on where you are in the world I believe that strong of encryption is illegal in most western countries. The best you can hope for is 256, which is what I believe SSL is based on and should suffice.

Lookinto using Blowfish for a secure private key encryption.

Re: Military grade Encryption

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 2:33 am
by Eran
You probably meant RSA which is an encryption algorithm and not SSL which is a protocol that can use several algorithms (including RSA). RSA can go as far as 4096-bit, which is considered to be unbreakable in the foreseeable future (on the other hand, 512-bit keys were shown to be breakable using several hundred computers working together).

And why would 4096-bit be illegal? it just costs more.