[EAS] Next Generation

[RobertM]

While I am on record that eliminating most of this nonsense is the best solution, if an authenticator was used with 4 bits I only need 16 attempts to break the systems, easily done in a few minutes at worst.  


> On Nov 15, 2014, at 1:56 AM, Phil Johnson <p_johnson58 at msn.com> wrote:
> 
> Mr. McCarthy comments that " the mission isn't to create an overtly secure
> message cypher..... and that that 4 ASCII bytes is plenty...".  Maybe or
> maybe not.  We don't know how secure an encryption scheme should be for our
> purposes or how complex an authenticator would be needed.  This isn't 1962,