[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
You do not understand what was said. > 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). Have you ever heard of statistical probability distribution and the logical principle of bivalence (tertium non datur)? If at any time there are x people then exists (vertically mirrored E) such a proposition P that for at least x/2 of the people the proposition R "x is wrong about P" holds true. The people who are wrong and the proposition(s) are dynamic and change with time but that property remains true at all times in a system with sufficient propositions and a large enough number of people. Q.E.D. > It is being given a chance. "Giving it a chance" does not mean > "stepping back and ignoring it until someone publishes an exploit." Giving it a chance does not mean spreading FUD about it and shouting around "It's new, it must be bad! I have not even read the papers or looked at the code myself, but I will criticize it because I like NetBSD better!" If you want to really be constructive do something that is constructive, analyze GBDE, write a paper, improve the code. You're just adding noise to the discussion, you may have as well commented on my punctuation marks. > 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." You really don't know what you're talking about, do you? > > 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. You're right, IIRC PKZIP v1.10 had DES encryption back in 1990, someone should have told PHK! :-P Please, get a clue, read PHK's papers. ALeine ___________________________________________________________________ WebMail FREE http://mail.austrosearch.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"