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FarrenH

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19. Fair enough

Reply to wtmusic (Reply #5)

Tue Aug 20, 2013, 03:51 PM

Aug 2013

You're assuming he's using 128-bit AES encryption though. As someone who has used much less secure encryption for large volumes of data simply because it was "good enough" for my purposes and faster to encrypt and unencrypt than more secure encryption tools, I can't help wondering whether the same might be true for a lot of other people.

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