Bid on a SnakeOil Crypto Algorithm Patent

2007-10-03 Thread Saqib Ali
http://www.freepatentauction.com/patent.php?nb=950 Snake Oil Keywords: 1) Breach-proof Encryption, 2) landmark invention in Cryptography and Information Security saqib http://security-basics.blogspot.com/ - The Cryptography M

Re: Linus: Security is "people wanking around with their opinions"

2007-10-03 Thread Leichter, Jerry
| I often say, "Rub a pair of cryptographers together, and you'll | get three opinions. Ask three, you'll get six opinions." :-) | | However, he's talking about security, which often isn't quantifiable! >From what I see in the arguments, it's more complicated than that. On one side, we have SeL

Re: Seagate announces hardware FDE for laptop and desktop machines

2007-10-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Simon Josefsson: > One would assume that if you disable the password, the data would NOT be > accessible. Making it accessible should require a read+decrypt+write of > the entire disk, which would be quite time consuming. It may be that > this is happening in the background, although it isn't

Re: Seagate announces hardware FDE for laptop and desktop machines

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:50:27PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Without access to the device (I've contacted Hitachi EMEA to find out if > it is possible to purchase the special disks) it is difficult to infer > how it works, but the final page of the howto seems strange: > > ... > >NOTE: