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Depends on the definition of "encryption". It looks like GP's definition of "encryption" does not include childish stuff like RO13 and XOR. Is his definition
by rurounijones 13y ago
Depends on the definition of "encryption".
It looks like GP's definition of "encryption" does not include childish stuff like RO13 and XOR.
Is his definition technically accurate? No, but then words are malleable and companies hiding behind "technically accurate" in their marketing blurb is never a good thing.
- dspillett 13y ago> Is his definition technically accurate? No, but then words are malleable I've taken to calling simple XOR/Rot based schemes like that "encoding" instead then encryption, as it would seem have others, as they are essentially static alphabet changes - converting ANSI to UCS or UTF16 would be almost as effective. Of course marketing are going to use the best sounding word they can in any small way justify rather than caring about any disconnect between reality and what things actually mean to the people they are marketing to. Obfuscation is another work I'd use for such simple schemes. They have much the same effect as code obfuscation: they hide something from the most casual of viewers but offer no protection at all against anyone with five minutes to spare.
- willvarfar 13y agoThe words encryption and obfuscation do not contain any overtones of their complexities. You would rename the Caesar Cipher to be Caesar Encoding? Not going to fly. Any encryption where the password is public knowledge is just obfuscation. So if these backups were AESed, reversed, RC4ed, bzipped and then DES3ed ... that'd just be time-consuming obfuscation.