> > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: ron.l.john...@cox.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line >attack? >Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:27:31 -0600 > >>On 02/24/2009 02:36 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: >>[snip] >>> >>> Anyway, the AES cipher is one that is very well studied. It has >been >>> implemented all over. Just about anybody have tried to attack it >and >>> yet there's no known practical attack on it. It performs well. So >it is >> ^^^^^ >> >>That's the word, of course... Any government that discovers a >>successful attack is going to keep quiet. >> >>> a very sane choice as a block cipher. >> >>-- >>Ron Johnson, Jr. >>Jefferson LA USA >> >>The feeling of disgust at seeing a human female in a Relationship >>with a chimp male is Homininphobia, and you should be ashamed of >>yourself. >> >> And in fact there always has been suspicion in the crypto community that, in at least some of the ciphers (going back to the original DES) that the NSA had built in a "trapdoor" such that they could easily decrypt the message but anyone else, not knowing the trapdoor, would have to use brute force. Never proven of course. larry >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.d >ebian.org >> >> >>
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