I'm not going to defend what Thor said, nor do I even think it's worth discussing as it largely amounts to an "appeal to privileged knowledge." However, this is some extremely sloppy thinking in your writing. To wit:
On Thursday 03 March 2005 02:43, ALeine wrote: > At any time half of all the people are wrong about something, it's > only a matter of time when your time will come to be in the wrong > half or rather the right half to be wrong. That's a false dichotomy. There are many subjects on which the vast majority of people agree (such, as, I'll wager, the roundness of the Earth). > Just because there is a tendency for new cryptographic systems to > be broken does not mean this applies to GBDE, otherwise anything > new would be considered wrong and we might as well stop even trying > to innovate. Give GBDE a chance. It is being given a chance. "Giving it a chance" does not mean "stepping back and ignoring it until someone publishes an exploit." At least one weakness has been identified -- namely, using a weaker encryption mode for the key-key blocks can reduce the strength of the entire system. Or to put it metaphorically, "an algorithm is only as strong as its weakest link." > GBDE is not replacing anything because there was nothing like it to > replace in the first place. That's purely false. There are several other disk encryption systems around. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"