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Re: [Cryptography] check-summed keys in secret ciphers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Philipp_G=FChring?=)
Thu Oct 3 09:45:43 2013
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Philipp_G=FChring?= <pg@futureware.at>
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Hi,
Am 2013-09-30 10:16, schrieb ianG:
> I'm not really understanding the need for checksums on keys.
Perhaps it is a DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) technology. At least the
same method works great for Creditcard numbers.
"Oh, there is a 14 digit number being sent on a unclassified network,
and all the checksums are correct? Someone is trying to leak ...
terminate the connection, forensically analyze the machine, ..."
Best regards,
Philipp
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