Re: Beginner Qn: Encrypting small data

From: Tom St Denis (tom_at_securescience.net)
Date: 06/30/04


Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:07:30 GMT

kackson wrote:

> Hi.
> This is the first time I'm working to encrypt some data. So, any
> advise or pointer to sites or books are deeply appreciated.
>
> I need to encrypt ( and of course decrypt) data that is not larger
> than 500KB in real time (i.e. less than one fifth or 0.2 of a sec).
> Since the data is easily accessible by unauthorized users, I would
> also need the method to easily render the entire data useless once a
> single byte of information is altered.

Why is this last requirement important?

Tom



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