Re: crypto file system for Linux: which?
On Thu, Aug 26, 1999 at 06:55:20PM +0100, Antonomasia wrote: I have tested that samba and cfs under linux will work together, i.e. you serve plaintext across the net and it's magnetic home is as cyphertext where CFS directories have been made. It's the cyphertext that you get backed up on tape. Have you tried restoring from backup to make sure that it works? I'm under the impression that CFS uses inode numbers to compute an IV. If you restore the ciphertext from backups the inode numbers will probably be different and the files will not decrypt properly. Try this: copy a CFS ciphertext file from one ciphertext directory to another. Then attempt to read the plaintext of the new file. The filename and length are correct but the contents are corrupt. If you use ln instead of cp the file will read correctly, because the inode number is still the same. I have not tried soft RAID and how it might interact with the above. It should not be a problem. CFS doesn't really care how the ciphertext is stored as long as the inode numbers don't change.
IP: USA Today.com on PECSNEC recommendations.
--- begin forwarded text Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:45:47 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: David Farber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IP: USA Today.com on PECSNEC recommendations. Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "Rodger, William" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USA Today.com on PECSNEC recommendations. Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:38:41 -0400 From: http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctf944.htm White House panel: Export crypto, not jobs By Will Rodger, USATODAY.com A presidential advisory group is recommending the White House abandon nearly all export controls on hardware and software vital to assuring the privacy of Internet users, group members tell USATODAY.com. The advice from the panel, officially known as the President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption, flies in the face of a Clinton Administration policy that has drawn fire from civil libertarians and industry alike. That rancorous debate between the two sides now seems likely to intensify as the White House's own group of advisers tells it to change course. and http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/ctf958.htm --- end forwarded text - Robert A. Hettinga mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation http://www.ibuc.com/ 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
FCC issues CALEA orders
Or at least, a press release of a summary of pending orders. The FBI (and every other LEA, there are too many to count) got almost every wiretapping aid they asked for, and they had apparently asked for a lot. Somehow, this is not a big surprise. See www.fcc.gov, in particular: www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/News_Releases/1999/nret9003.html For a reasonable summary, see: http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters19990827_2390.html [EMAIL PROTECTED]
