IIPM News Article - Apple Remote Desktop’s AES capacities

This radical tool is based on the concept of 4x4 arrays working on permutations and substitutions; it can have key and block sizes from 128, 192, or 256 bits. AES-encrypted data is almost indissoluble – to crack it, one has to hunt through almost an infinite number of combinations, which is pretty impossible. Not surprisingly, leading soft ware packages like WinMagic, MySecureDoc Personal Edition and RSA Key Manager too now include AES. “With Apple Remote Desktop 3, we’ve delivered powerful innovations,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior VP, Worldwide Product Marketing, referring to Apple Remote Desktop’s AES capacities too. And of course, “everybody has a right to privacy,” said Katja Pryss, Director Marketing, Steganos (a leading European security soft ware provider). The company on June 5, launched a free online 256-bit AES encrypting and decrypting tool. But what is surprising is that businesses are still not integrating this virtually unbreakable tool as a mandatory security standard for all processes, despite suffering huge losses. It is most imperative that enterprises implement this “fool”-proof security, or suffer Big Brotherly love!

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Source: IIPM Publication , Editor: Arindam Chaudhuri