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




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From: ron.l.johnson@xxxxxxx
To: debian-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line
attack?
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:47:15 -0600

On 02/24/2009 09:50 AM, owens@xxxxxxxxxx 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

That would only be possible if The Government controlled the source
code, or had an "understanding" with those who write closed-source
code.

--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

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.

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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