zo...@zooko.com (Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn) on Thursday, October 29, 2009 wrote:
I'm beginning to think that *in general* when I see a random number
required for a crypto protocol then I want to either
deterministically generate it from other data which is already
present or to have it
Dear Darren J Moffat:
I don't understand why you need a MAC when you already have the hash
of the ciphertext. Does it have something to do with the fact that
the checksum is non-cryptographic by default (http://docs.sun.com/app/
docs/doc/819-5461/ftyue?a=view ), and is that still true?
On Fri, 30 Oct 2009, Darren J Moffat wrote:
The SHA256 checksums are used even for blocks in the pool that aren't
encrypted and are used for detecting and repairing (resilvering) block
corruption. Each filesystem in the pool has its own wrapping key and
data encryption keys.
Due to some
On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 10:33:34PM -0700, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
I don't understand why you need a MAC when you already have the hash
of the ciphertext. Does it have something to do with the fact that
the checksum is non-cryptographic by default (http://docs.sun.com/app/
http://www.technologyreview.com/web/23836/
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On Nov 1, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
On Oct 29, 2009, at 11:25 PM, Jerry Leichter wrote:
A couple of days ago, I pointed to an article claiming that these
were easy to break, and asked if anyone knew of security analyses
of these facilities.
I must say, I'm very
On Nov 2, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote:
- Jerry Leichter leich...@lrw.com wrote:
for iPhone's and iPod Touches, which are regularly used to hold
passwords (for mail, at the least).
I would not (do not) trust the iPhone (or iPod Touch) to protect a
high value password.
