> > > >---- Original Message ---- >From: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line >attack? >Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:47:15 -0600 > >>On 02/24/2009 09:50 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>[snip] >>> 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 >> >>That would only be possible if The Government controlled the source >>code, or had an "understanding" with those who write closed-source >code. >> >>-- >>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. >> Ron et al Actually this was the case with the DES; the NSA put out a RFP and worked with the potential vendors quite closely during the development. IBM (Tuchman and Myers) eventually won the bid. I attended a week-long security seminar series in which Myers himself vociferously denied the trap-door theory. Who can tell? Larry >> >>-- >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] >ebian.org >> >> >>
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