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Maxim Security

Maxim features 128 bit encryption.

How secure is 128 bit encryption? A French mathematical researcher recently took a little over one week to crack 40 bit encryption using a large network of powerful workstations. By logical extension, 41 bit encryption would take twice as long again.

Using the same 'brute force attack', 56 bit encryption could theoretically be broken in around 1.4 million years; it would take significantly longer than the age of the universe to crack a 128-bit key.

Each key is valid only for the life of one transaction -- typically less than two minutes.