At 20:12 -0500 2003/03/09, Richard Welty wrote:
[..] >they're not what i was refering to, though. the original writer was simply
>asking about cipher security, and i suggested that the distinction between
>RC4 and 3DES was not all that big a deal for a transient communication like
>a single piece of email, despite the fact that 3DES is much stronger than
>the deprecated (and vulnerable) RC4. i was simply suggesting that if
>encryption of the mail was important, than PGP/GPG was preferable to
>depending on the somewhat limited capabilities of SMTP over TLS.
I was just concerned about password protection. I hope RC4
vulnerability still requires a pretty determined person and that the
tools to break it do not come shrink-wrapped off the shelves.
