Personal data exposed! How can we fix this mess?
by Mintz Levin, More posts from Mintz Levin
Thu 2007-04-19 17:55:50
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Bent out of shape about all the data breaches exposing personal information? Tell us about it.

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Mon, 2007-04-23 18:33
"safe harbor"
By Matt King

I would strike:

"Safe harbor" for encrypted data

Encrypted date does not mean the data is safe for several reasons.
1) Company could be using weak (easily breakable) keys
2) Company could be using non-standard encrpytion algorithms
3) Company could be using wrong modes of encrpytion
4) Company encryption keys could have been compromised
5) Encrypted data could be stored in such a way that certain attacks have a much higher success rate, decreasing the potential key-space

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