Your email isn't safe!!!
tr...@mailexcite.com
Many people (especially with the growing number of people going online for
the first time) are under the assumption that email is private and as safe as
US postal service. This is not true! Because email travels through both
telephone lines and many different computers before reaching it's
final destination, it CAN be intercepted. A few examples of how are:
1) Physical tapping of your telephone line.
2) A snooping email administrator (they do exist!).
3) Hackers with "brute force" hacking programs can gain entry into your
account, sometimes in as little as 2 hours. After that, they can get in
anytime they like!
We advise all email users to do the following, in order to avoid
embarrassment, heartbreak, or financial ruin:
1) If you have more than one email account, use different passwords on both of
them.
2) Treat ALL of your email messages as postcards, this means no financial
info, deep-dark secrets, or credit card numbers! If you see something on the
web that you would like to quickly order, copy down the telephone number.
3) If you would like to hold on to your anonymity, use a remailing service.
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The Other Chris
tr...@mailexcite.com wrote:
>
> Many people (especially with the growing number of people going online for
> the first time) are under the assumption that email is private and as safe as
> US postal service. This is not true!
-<snip>-
To paraphrase the Klingons: "Never Email anything that you wouldn't
scream to the naked stars."
The Other Chris
hc...@realsurvival.com
>2) Treat ALL of your email messages as postcards, this means no financial
>info, deep-dark secrets, or credit card numbers!
The only secret is the one never told. Once you tell another. it is no
longer secret.
It is possible to use credit cards on the internet. Using SECURE
SERVERS which totally encrypts your information at all phases is very
safe. We use both 128 bit SSL & PGP
I became convinced of this after reading how our customers privacy was
ensured by our server.
They point out quite correctly that a person is willing to give a
credit card to a store clerk, or over the telephone to people they
have never met. It is very easy for these people to keep a copy of
receipts or just write these numbers down for their own use.
(MAKE SURE that all carbon copies of your credit card receipt are torn
up while you are present. This was standard practice in our Retail
Store)
WHEN ordering by credit card from anybody it just pays to be careful.
Almost any web site accepting credit cards use a form of encryption
for their customers protection. Most as OURS does has a link that will
take you to a page explaing exactly how YOU are protected.
You would be amased at the lengths we go to protect our customers.
Without you we may as pack it up and go home, we would have no
business.
As always we do not sell or trade our customers names. We do offer
TOTALLY SECURE Credit Card transactions.
Take Care Bob hc...@realsurvival.com
http://www.realsurvival.com
"Dig The Well Before You Are Thirsty"
tryingtimes
>It is possible to use credit cards on the internet. Using SECURE
>SERVERS which totally encrypts your information at all phases is very
>safe. We use both 128 bit SSL & PGP
>
Problem with the 128 bit encryption is is was broken by a hacker using 30 networked computers inside
of 6 months the newer standard uses 248 and if you use numbers and letters only in the encryption
scheme your making it easy.
Think of ASCII alpha numerical to make it down right annoying to crack!
John Lydic
That was a specific challenge to a specific plaintext solution. 128
bit is still secure enough that COCOM restrictions still forbid its
export. 256, 1024, etc do however offer a better level of security.
--
John Lydic
KA8LVZ / NNN0WWJ
NRA Life Member
NRA Certified Instructor
NRA Training Counselor
State Hunter Education Instructor (Ohio)
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"Tolerance is the virtue of those with no convictions of their own"
James A. Donald
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> > It is possible to use credit cards on the internet. Using
> > SECURE SERVERS which totally encrypts your information at
> > all phases is very safe. We use both 128 bit SSL & PGP
"tryingtimes" <webm...@microsyssolutions.com> wrote:
> Problem with the 128 bit encryption is is was broken by a
> hacker using 30 networked computers inside of 6 months
Incorrect.
Check out the web pages on the crypto challenges.
40 bit encryption was broken in the manner described, not 128 bit
128 bit symmetric encryption (using RC4) has never been broken, nor
will it be for a very long time.
The highest symmetric encryption that was broken so far was 56 bit DES
Standard symmetric, provided by most reputable crypto organizations,
is 128 bit, which will undoubtedly hold for many decades.
The highest elliptic encryption that was broken so far was 96 bit,
though I expect 110 to fall soon. Standard elliptic, provided by all
reputable cypto organizations that provide elliptic encryption, is 240
bit, which will probably hold for at least a century.
My own product, Crypto Kong
http://www.jim.com/jamesd/Kong
uses 240 bit elliptic and 240 bit symmetric, but I would have been
perfectly happy to use 128 bit symmetric, it was merely more
convenient to use all the bits available.
--digsig
James A. Donald
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Athos
tr...@mailexcite.com wrote:
> Many people (especially with the growing number of people going online for
> the first time) are under the assumption that email is private and as safe as
> US postal service. This is not true! Because email travels through both
> telephone lines and many different computers before reaching it's
> final destination, it CAN be intercepted. A few examples of how are:
snipped...
use PGP.
Athos
James A. Donald
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James A. Donald <jam...@echeque.com> wrote:
>> 128 bit symmetric encryption (using RC4) has never been broken, nor
>> will it be for a very long time.
pery...@oklahoma.net (Perry Noid) wrote:
>I don't think 128 bit encryption is all that it's cracked to be (pun
>intended). Naturally the feds wouldn't expend huge resoarces cracking
>James A. Donald's survival files, but they would expend a few million
>developing software that could crack civilian encrypted files en-mass.
>
>2^128 sounds like a lot of possible solutions and it is, but it's not as
>hard as it sounds. It's a lot easier if they:
>
> (1) know the method of encryption
>and (2) know some of the data, chunk for chunk, before =AND= after
> encryption, probably just 20 times the length of the key.
Assume they can try one hundred billion keys per second. they know
the method of encryption, and can test each result against some of the
data.
Then to brute force a document encrypted using 128 bit encryption will
take them:
100 000 000 000 000 000 000 years.
Of course the sun will go out after a mere 5 000 000 000 years, so
they will have to move the cracking effort to a new sun.
In the course of this cracking effort, they will use up 200 000 000
000 stars.
--digsig
James A. Donald
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