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Hi You are 100% correct. On the home page is a link to 'The Story of R10Cipher' in there you can read the following:

'The encryption technology used by R10Cipher was also developed in the UK. Blowfish is a keyed symmetric block cipher which was invented by ‘Security Guru’ and renowned author, Bruce Schneier, Chief Security Technical Officer at British Telecom, in 1993. It provides excellent encryption and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Blowfish is free of patents, and back doors, and Bruce has placed Blowfish in the public domain.

Blowfish was chosen over AES for two reasons, a) It’s a fast, secure and respected encryption technology and b) There are still many concerns, specifically in the USA, about the security of AES and whether a backdoor exists to which the government has access. Whether that is true or not is irrelevant as it is a popular public conception and using Blowfish bypasses those doubts when selling to US customers.'

I did once have this information on the home page but most people were completely put off by it, only the techies were interested therefore it is there, but not jumping off the page.

Cheers - Steve



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