Wednesday 16 March 2011

Encryption and Blowfish Technology in simple Terms!!!

When using Datamonster your files are very secure. Files are encrypted to 448 bit encryption using the latest blowfish technology. So in simple terms what does that mean?  
Encryption is a way of encoding data (e.g. a document) so that it is completely unreadable to those who do not possess the encryption key. In simple terms if you hold the encryption key you can decrypt the data so it is in a readable form.
 
Blowfish is the name given to a specific method of encryption it is a block cipher which means it encrypts the data in chunks rather than one long stream of data.
 
The length of the encryption key is important as the longer the key the more possible permutations are available. Blowfish can use a key length from 32 to 448 bit - our software uses the highest 448-bit which gives 2 X 10448 permutations. For example most banks use a 128-bit key which means there are 2 X 10128 different permutations.

To give an example of scale 109 = 1,000,000,000 = 1 billion, 1018 = 1 trillion = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 we hope that helps explain in as simple terms as possible.

Saturday 5 March 2011

Data encryption

Encryption is a security method of scrambling information within a file to make it Completely unintelligible. All data stored using the Datamonster online backup software is stored in a highly encrypted format so there is no possibility of unauthorized access. The method of encryption used is called Blowfish, one of the most sophisticated algorithms available. Endorsed by the military and widely used by the banking and telecommunications industries. Datamonster encrypt your data using 448-bit technology(over 3 times the level used by most Internet banks), ensuring complete privacy, guaranteeing, nobody but you can ever view it.