iallen{at}accesswave.ca wrote:

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>What encryption algorithm does RAR uses? 	
>Encryption algorithm is changed to AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)
with 128 bit key length since WinRAR 3.0. The US Government created an
encryption standard several years ago, called the Data Encryption Standard
(DES). It has been widely used both in government circles and by banks. The
government has recently replaced DES with the Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES). One cryptologist has said that assuming that you could recover a DES
key in a second (trying 2^55 keys per second), it would take the same
machine approximately 149 trillion years to recover a 128-bit AES key.	
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>  
>

Hi Iain,

I think sometimes that people forget that even an 80386 could do a 
string compare of 1GB [2^32 words] with a single instruction!
In theory! Unfortunately RAM lack was a problem at that time!

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Mike

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