At 03:43 AM 11/3/98 +0530, Narayan Raghu wrote: > Indian firm unveils 448-bit encryption 448 bits sounds a lot like MD5-based encryption - perhaps Luby-Rackoff or MDC? Or a homegrown system, doing successive MD5s or something? MD5 is no longer the safest hash these days.... Thanks! Bill Bill Stewart, [email protected] PGP Fingerprint D454 E202 CBC8 40BF 3C85 B884 0ABE 4639