In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Todd Vierling writes: >On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> At the time where I wrote GBDE, the best that was offered was CGD (and >> similar) and users (not cryptographers!) didn't trust it > >Could you back up this claim, insofar that "users" did not trust cgd? I >haven't seen any distrust of cgd -- in fact, I've seen quite a bit of >welcome acceptace of cgd by both users *and* cryptographers.
Some of the people I talked to were very unhappy about the same key being used for all sectors on the disk. Even a small weakness in the cipher becomes a big hole because of the amount of data this offers for analysis. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
