Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?
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>From: ron.l.johnson@cox.net
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line
>attack?
>Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:47:15 -0600
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>>On 02/24/2009 09:50 AM, owens@netptc.net wrote:
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>>> And in fact there always has been suspicion in the crypto
>community
>>> that, in at least some of the ciphers (going back to the original
>>> DES) that the NSA had built in a "trapdoor" such that they could
>>> easily decrypt the message but anyone else, not knowing the
>trapdoor,
>>> would have to use brute force. Never proven of course.
>>> larry
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>>That would only be possible if The Government controlled the source
>>code, or had an "understanding" with those who write closed-source
>code.
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>>Ron Johnson, Jr.
>>Jefferson LA USA
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>>The feeling of disgust at seeing a human female in a Relationship
>>with a chimp male is Homininphobia, and you should be ashamed of
>>yourself.
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Ron et al
Actually this was the case with the DES; the NSA put out a RFP and
worked with the potential vendors quite closely during the
development. IBM (Tuchman and Myers) eventually won the bid. I
attended a week-long security seminar series in which Myers himself
vociferously denied the trap-door theory. Who can tell?
Larry
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