Hawthorne Davies has taken two years to solve the key management problems of the CRYPETO 3072 Encryption System.
All encryption systems, with the exception of the one-time pad, are “Master Key” systems of one sort or another. All use a “Session Key”, which, as its name implies, changes with each message. But without some sort of overriding shared secret – a “Master Key” – whether called by that name or not – there is no way that the recipient of a message can know how to decrypt it.
It may be argued that Public/Private Key does not require sender and recipient to share a secret. This is true. It is this quality, which, around 30 years ago, revolutionised encryption technology. The great strength of the system is that you can send secret messages to people you have never met. Nevertheless, if, through any quirk of fate, the private part of the key becomes public knowledge, then all future messages from any sender worldwide can be broken. Public knowledge of a CRYPTETO Master Key is also catastrophic, but the damage is limited a very small group of correspondents.
Public/Private Key requires the backup of PKI (Public Key Infrastructre), which means that you have to entrust the guardianship of your Master Key (however called) to some external international organisation, staffed with people who you will never meet. One rogue employee is all that is needed to bring the whole system crashing down. Of course the CRYPTETO Master Key System can also fall apart if you decide to publish your Master Key in the Wall Street Journal. But the fundamental advantage of the CRYPTETO 3072 Master Key is that your security is under your control and no one else’s. CRYPTETO 3072 is primarily designed to meet the needs of disciplined senior management who would never dream of sending secret messages to people unless they shared a pre-agreed Master Key.
And now a final word about key strength. . . . . .
Your secret Credit Card PIN might look this: 6097
The key to the safe containing all you diamonds might look this: 83 09 56 12 77 12
By contrast, the following is a genuine CRYPTETO 3072 Master Key, generated by the product’s own non-deterministic method. It is primarily designed for use among a small group of people, not for publishing in the Wall street Journal:
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Author: Bill Hawthorne
