Re: Safe password?

John E. Hadstate wrote:

> It may seem idiotic to you, but the Sun JRE does essentially
> the same thing. It allows the developer to develop a system
> using strong cipher algorithms and then, at run time, based
> on the presence and contents of a "policy file", limits the
> key length. One can download "unlimited strength" policy
> files from the Sun site, but the default is to use "strong"
> (read "weakened") keys.

Check the implementation and you'll find that "strong" doesn't either
mean or implement "weakened", but really just "limited".
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:41:49 2006