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

On 02/24/2009 03:35 PM, owens@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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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?

*You* (or, more specifically, anyone who knows cryptography) can tell whether an algorithm has weaknesses, like a back door. A sufficiently competent programmer can find back doors in code (cc not withstanding).

No such back doors were ever found in OSS implementations of DES or AES.

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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.


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