Posted by Jochem Maas on 10/04/49 11:05

Jason Wong wrote:
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 01:55, Greg Donald wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:09:08 +0100, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com>
>
> wrote:
>
>>>I'm no expert on crypto (and never will be either! designing good crypto
>>>is something best left to the very very very very best in terms of
>>>computer science) but I think that the following function represents
>>>very weak crypto -
>>
>>Feel free to not use it then.. geez.
>
>
> No offence, but as you are a ZCE, this might lead people that that function is
> useful and might actually use it. Notwithstanding the fact that it is an
> extremely weak encryption, OP please note that it is pointless to be
> encrypting/storing/decrypting data all on the same machine. And if the data
> to be encrypted is anywhere near sensitive then using weak encryption is
> worse than no encryption (no encryption doesn't waste CPU cycles and doesn't
> give a false sense of security).
>

thank god for your input, for a minute I thought I was (being) a
complete moron. :-)

(no disrespect to Zend, but ZCE _sounds_ a lot like MSCE and everyone
knows what thats worth ;-) - just a but of humour guys!)

actually I only noticed the ZCE after I posted; I just thought it a good
idea to give the 'noobs' a heads up regarding the fact thatgetting
encryption (& security) right is hard (well I think it it anyway)!

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