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Feeble: (1) Watches, other devices with extremely limited mathematical abilities
(2) Calculators, from the kind you get for $2 to advanced scientific (but not graphing)
Poor: (3) Graphing calculators, very old computers (early '80s)
(4) Computers from the mid '80s to '90s (up to, but not including 100+ mhz systems)
Typical: (6) Computers from 100 Mhz to 150 Mhz
(7) 150 Mhz to 200 Mhz
Good: (8-12) Computers from 200 Mhz to 300 Mhz
(3-15) Low-end workstations
Excellent: Workstations
Remarkable: Minicomputers
Incredible: Mainframe computers
Amazing: Supercomputers
Monstrous: Not usually available; mega supercomputers that some hero groups have or alien supercomputers
NOTE: as per Moore's Law, computers get twice as fast every 18 months. So a 166 Mhz Pentium MMX system started at Typical (7), but will be Poor (4) in about a year. That is the way of things in the computer industry.
Feeble: Simple "fast" encryption routines that merely involve using the logical XOR command with the data stream and the user-provided password. Fairly easy to crack using brute-force method. Requires Good Feat to crack.
Poor: Older encryption algorithims, from mechanical encryption of the WWII era, to older computer-based encryption algorithms. Requires RM Feat to crack.
Typical: High-end encryption standards of the '80s. Before the introduction of public-key encryption. IN Feat to crack.
Good: PGP* at 1024 bits (Personal-level encryption). AM Feat to crack.
Excellent: PGP at 2048 bits (Commerical-level encryption). MN Feat to crack.
Remarkable: Older military encryption algorithms. UN Feat to crack.
Incredible: PGP at 4096 bits (Military-level encryption). SH-X Feat to crack.
Amazing: Very high-end (top-secret) military encryption. SH-Y Feat to crack.
Monstrous: Encryption levels unknown to most governments, perhaps used by hero groups or aliens.
*PGP is an encryption program available from www.pgp.com.
If you double, or triple the encryption keys per file, you double or triple the encryption rank number, and the rank number of the feat needed to crack it. If you used PGP at military rank with three different keys encrypted one on top of the other for one file, you've got a file protected with UN (120) encryption, and it would take a SH-Z (450) Feat to crack it. The drawback is the time it takes to encrypt/decrypt the file (RM computing Feat to encrypt/decrypt the example).
The encryption ranks given do not represent the Feat required to encrypt the data. Most encryption is just a TY Feat, maybe GD for PGP1024.
