Not a work related post - just curious.
You can get all sorts of little programs boasting some amazing algorithm, 96 billion bit encryption, just for keeping your passwords, pin numbers etc.safe.
Is it actually necessary? Surely decryption requires some sort of pattern to the content to work?. If you have a file containing pins/passwords that are just completely meaningless combinations of numbers and letters, and they have been translated into a different combination of meaningless numbers and letters, is there any decryption process that could possibly be quicker than just trying all the combinations?
Strikes me that you could apply some really simple encryption algorithm to such a file and it would effectively be as secure as the pro offerings. Or is that complete rubbish?
You can get all sorts of little programs boasting some amazing algorithm, 96 billion bit encryption, just for keeping your passwords, pin numbers etc.safe.
Is it actually necessary? Surely decryption requires some sort of pattern to the content to work?. If you have a file containing pins/passwords that are just completely meaningless combinations of numbers and letters, and they have been translated into a different combination of meaningless numbers and letters, is there any decryption process that could possibly be quicker than just trying all the combinations?
Strikes me that you could apply some really simple encryption algorithm to such a file and it would effectively be as secure as the pro offerings. Or is that complete rubbish?
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