06-21-2005
No offense, but I gather you're not a crypto person.
As soon as you said 'secure' I knew there may be a problem. Merely encrypting data with a good two-way encryption scheme does not make it secure. Procedures, physical security, SOX compliance procedures, audting, etc., all contribute to 'secure'.
I've worked with uninformed management, so I know they think having 'unbreakable' two-way encryption is all that's needed. They don't care if the passwords on all the files are the same, or if someone leaves the password taped to a console.
Unless security is more than encryption and includes a large array of things throughout your company, decent two-way encryption is is not going to mediate any security threats. And is just going to cuase you perosnally problems when people lock up files and can't open them.
FWIW: all two-way encryption schemes can be broken with the exception of the so-called one-time pad (Shannons' Theorem if you want to read about it). It might take several years of brute force attack, but they all can be broken.
Short answer: PGP can be broken, if that's what you mean. There are problems with the random number generators used for a lot of implmentations of it.
The (US) NSA currently deems triple-DES encryption schemes and some other related schemes as something we do not want the bad guys to get. ie., NSA has a difficult time with breaking them. So I would go with triple-DES.
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