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Re: safety of encrypted filesystems



On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 17:15:32 +1000, Alexander Zangerl writes:
(bloody hell: can't even type anymore. weekend is calling...)

>>also sprach Alexander Zangerl <az@bond.edu.au> [2005.06.17.0835 +0200]:
>>> no - with cbd, dud blocks effect only decryption of the block itself
>>> and the one directly following it.

i meant cipher block chaining. no idea how i got to cbd.

>details (with a nice diagram) can be found on page 220 of the 
>handbook of applied crypto.
>the official pdfs are here: <URL:http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/about/c
>hap7.pdf>

page 229.

argh.
az


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