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in thread What *are* the best ways to encrypt data?

There are no best ways ... just some are more sound than others.

Oh, I dunno. Have you ever read an IRS instruction booklet? That's so encrypted that even they can't decipher it.

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Re^3: What *are* the best ways to encrypt data?
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Aug 27, 2004 at 13:23 UTC
    That's not because they're oneway hashed ... that's because logic professors have paid off the IRS to write sentences that are impossible to parse into predicate logic, thus providing a tax-payer funded source of test questions.

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