I'll just add a wink and a nod on how to break most of this stuff, and realize that the limitation is usually computational power, and things like affordable Blade servers, and even PS3's and GPU clusters on modified CUDA architectures are fantastic at breaking these sorts of things. The cost of all these are coming down, the biggest real breaking point is that the higher order, highly channelized CDMA based using more than a few MHz of spectrum is technically a much larger challenge over the air than would be trying other routes. That's as far as unclass articles will take you - as it is the info contained just in this post probably identifies exactly who I am to the right people anyway.
Application layer is a really great way to run stuff, even simple 128b AES added after the fact is worth it if you need the security, but outside of a few industries, it isn't worth the hassle of educating all parties. That, however, didn't stop us back in the day at college campus from passing meaningless notes encrypted 256b with encoded messages.
Last edited by TehLlama; 06-20-12 at 14:05.
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