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June 19th, 2007, 03:18 PM
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this is a rather difficult problem. As SirDice says, algorithm strength is not proportional to strength. Clearly, the more bits you use to encrypt the more possibilities you generate for a brute force algorithm. However, if the encryption algorithm is slightly flawed in that (making up an example) it always encrypts "e" to "47" and "m" to "~!" the odds drastically change.
Thats before you even consider the data being encrypted or the user. A user that sets an encryption key to "password" with the best algorithm in the world still has a problem. Also, when you encrypt things like source code you create a frequency analysis vulnerability as source code contains many repeats of words like "void", "while", "if", "else",.....
Short answer, "strongest" encryption is hard to define.
If the world doesn't stop annoying me I will name my kids ";DROP DATABASE;" and get revenge.
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