Are low bit levels compromising encryption?
Would you use a chocolate teapot to protect your data? Guess what, you might be doing just that. According to Origin Storage there is plenty of evidence to suggest that a growing number of organisations are now adopting data encryption, no doubt partly in the wake of a huge number of high profile data losses that we have all been reading about.
The RAF recently lost potentially compromising data on a number of personnel, US Army files have been found on an auctioned off MP3 player, and the average cost of a data breach is probably a lot more than you might imagine. Andy Cordial, Managing Director at Origin Storage, reckons the big question remains "whether the public and private sector organisations adopting data encryption - particularly on their laptops and other portable storage devices - are employing the most powerful levels available."
His comments come at the same time as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the US are recommending that companies should not consider using 1024-bit RSA encryption from 2010, as rapidly-accelerating brute force decryption methodologies make this too dangerous.
