Safety of stack encryption. (was Linux Builder problem...)

[Dar Scott]

On Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 04:35 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

>> If you add a password to your stack(s), the scripts cannot be read by 
>> an editor anymore.
>> But i don't know how "safe" this build-in encryption is...
>
> It's said to be a derivative of DES, with equivalent security.

Though it may have equivalent security, that does not follow from the 
use of DES.  Often the weaknesses of any protocol are not in the 
encryption itself but in how the encryption is used.

Dar Scott