Word: decrypted
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Thus, although various computers on the Internet can still intercept the information you are transmitting, the encrypted nature of this information renders it meaningless. Attempts to decrypt the information, by anyone but the intended receiver, involves the commitment of years of computer time, frequently more years than the average human lifepan...
...Navigator software to conceal information such as credit card numbers in transactions over the Internet. (Rumor has it that the authors of the cracking program did their handiwork after watching the movie Hackers.) The security flaw stems from Netscape's use of a 30-digit binary "key" to decrypt such messages; the company has since released a new version using a 300-digit key which is significantly harder to defeat...