Re: Encryption on the AS/400

[thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx]

On Tue, 16 October 2001, "Nathan M. Andelin" wrote:

> No.  My intent was not to develop a message transport mechanism.  In message
> transport, my understanding is that a public key is used to authenticate the
> sender and a private key is used to decipher the message.
>
> My API was intended to encrypt and decipher data locally.

Seems like a very limited market if transport isn't an issue. Reasonable 
authority settings should be otherwise effective, unless encryption is intended 
to block high-authority users. But a high-authority user quite possibly can 
intercept any key when it's entered... unless you've implemented some means 
that protects the key as it passes between the user and the algorithm.

Tom Liotta

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