Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

[owens@netptc.net]

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>---- Original Message ----
>From: javuchi@gmail.com
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line
>attack?
>Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:53:27 +0100
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>>Ron Johnson escribió:
>>> On 02/23/2009 09:26 AM, Javier wrote:
>>>> Ron Johnson escribió:
>>>>> On 02/23/2009 01:28 AM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
>>>>>> 2009/2/21 Javier <javuchi@gmail.com>:
>>>>>>> I'm actually using encfs to protect my sensitive data,
>>>>>> Eh...
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>>>>>>       http://xkcd.com/538/
>>>>> That's known as Rubber Hose Decryption.
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>>>> Oh yes, but if he had the chance to scape, at least the files
>continue
>>>> to be untouchable....
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>>> Given enough time, and resources, *nothing* is untouchable.  It's
>just a
>>> matter of whether They think that the time-effort is worth being
>spent
>>> on *you*.
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>>Do you mean that there is a way to crack a 256bits AES?
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Yep! Given enough plaintext and ciphertext and enough time (or
parallel compute power and less time), a brute force attack will
always work.
Larry
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