Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-05 Thread Jim Wise
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jason Thorpe wrote: > On Mar 2, 2005, at 4:33 PM, ALeine wrote: > >> You need 2^128 steps to break the encryption of a single sector. >> But you have no idea which of the 2^128 sectors is the right one, Your disk has 2^128 sectors

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-05 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Mar 2, 2005, at 4:33 PM, ALeine wrote: You need 2^128 steps to break the encryption of a single sector. But you have no idea which of the 2^128 sectors is the right one, You may not know "for sure", but you can make a pretty well educated guess. You are basically ignoring Roland's argument tha

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-05 Thread Perry E. Metzger
"Poul-Henning Kamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes: >>The best I can say, however, is that the US >>government has approved the use of AES with 256 bit keys for very >>highly secure communications, and they have a very demanding user >>commu

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-05 Thread Charles M. Hannum
On Friday 04 March 2005 02:29, ALeine wrote: > > 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

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-05 Thread Charles M. Hannum
On Friday 04 March 2005 03:17, ALeine wrote: > Your assumption is wrong. First of all, the first sector of the > encrypted image does not necessarily start at the beginning of > the disk, nor does the last sector have to be the last sector > of the disk. At initialization first_sector, last_sector

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Re: Setting maximum data size

2005-03-05 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Greg 'groggy' Lehey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some values can be specified like this: > > hw.physmem="1G"# Limit physical memory. See loader(8) > > That doesn't seem to work for MAXDSIZ. I have a patch for this which will go in as soon as I'm done testing it. DES -- Dag-Erl

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-05 Thread ALeine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There are at least two ways to determine this information fairly easily: As easily as one can get accepted into the crypto community? :-> > 1) If you're doing analysis of a cold disk, it is ~trivial to tell > the difference between a sector that has been written only o

Re: sched_ule, runqueues, priority, and O(1) sheduling question

2005-03-05 Thread Andrey Simonenko
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 09:45:56PM +0530, Andriy Tkachuk wrote: > Hi folks. > > I wander how O(1) sheduling works in ULE. > In ule.pdf Jeff wrote: > > Threads are picked from the current queue in > priority order until the current queue is empty. > > As far as I understand the algorithm is O(n)

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-05 Thread ALeine
Someone from the NetBSD community who wishes to remain unnamed sent me the following email, so I thought I would comment on it here because there seem to be many others who are confused about the same issue. > My thinking is that for each of 2^30 sectors, you're looking for > one of 2^128 keys.

Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE

2005-03-05 Thread ALeine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >For example, one can regularly scrub the unused areas around the > >encrypted image (padding) with dd(1) using if=/dev/{u,}random and > >similar. This can be fully automated with a cron job. > > > >One can also regularly scatter files with misleading names and > > conte