[Cryptography] check-summed keys in secret ciphers?

Philipp Gühring pg at futureware.at
Wed Oct 2 18:47:47 EDT 2013


Hi,

Am 2013-09-30 10:16, schrieb ianG:
> I'm not really understanding the need for checksums on keys.
Perhaps it is a DLP (Data Leakage Prevention) technology. At least the
same method works great for Creditcard numbers.
"Oh, there is a 14 digit number being sent on a unclassified network,
and all the checksums are correct? Someone is trying to leak ...
terminate the connection, forensically analyze the machine, ..."

Best regards,
Philipp



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