John C Nash wrote:
> Some of you may remember my OCLUG talk on tools for carrying encrypted
> files on USB. Still on this topic, I'm wondering the best way (for the
> moment just in Linux) to simply view the contents of an encrypted plain
> text file (my password list!) in a way that doesn't lea
Not to rip into to John's code but there are some common security and
cryptographic mistakes. Security and cryptography are hard
problems. Cryptographic algorithms are easy. Integrating cryptography
into a system properly is much harder.
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 06:09:48PM -0400, John C Nash wrote
John C Nash wrote:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # v -- view contents of encrypted text file
> # first argument is name of file
> # sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=500k,nr_inodes=200,mode=0700 tmpfs
> /home/john/tspace
> sudo mount -t tmpfs -o size=500k,nr_inodes=200 tmpfs /home/john/tspace
> tpw=`date` # Us
Some of you may remember my OCLUG talk on tools for carrying encrypted
files on USB. Still on this topic, I'm wondering the best way (for the
moment just in Linux) to simply view the contents of an encrypted plain
text file (my password list!) in a way that doesn't leave a backup file
around, a
