Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-10 Thread vedaal
>Message: 1 >Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 21:14:22 -0500 >From: Thomas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Disk Partition >cdr wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > ...things missing from true-crypt: >>> ...authentication with a key, >> >I

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-10 Thread Alphax
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you don't want to use such a dangerous tool, you can produce many > containers having just random junk inside, some of them pseudo-secret > data like "love" emails.. Many as in 10s of thousands, and random file names. >

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-09 Thread Thomas Jones
cdr wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ...things missing from true-crypt: ...authentication with a key, I am not sure of the context of this statement. To what are you referring? Identification, and the subsequent authentication is already performed at the system(operating system) level. I

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-09 Thread zvrba
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 03:11:56PM +, cdr wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >The point is that the statement about deniability is misleading (or maybe I > >I should say, close to false). > > Zeljko, deniability has its place. It could be semantics, but perhaps you > are not be making suffic

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-09 Thread cdr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ...things missing from true-crypt: ...authentication with a key, TrueCrypt is an encrypted filesystem. No other filesystem that I know of implements authentication. cdr ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org ht

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-09 Thread cdr
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point is that the statement about deniability is misleading (or maybe I I should say, close to false). Zeljko, deniability has its place. It could be semantics, but perhaps you are not be making sufficient distinction between deniability and deception. Depending s

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-09 Thread vedaal
>Message: 8 >Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 19:45:33 +0200 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Disk Partition >On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:01:15PM +0400, lusfert wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 04:30:41PM +0400, lusfert wrote: >> &g

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-08 Thread zvrba
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 02:06:31PM -0400, Jean-David Beyer wrote: > > But most people are ineffectively paranoid. They worry about eavesdropping, > snooping, interception of their e-mail, but they absolutely refuse to do > anything about it. I know no one personally that uses encrypted e-mail. >

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-08 Thread Jean-David Beyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:01:15PM +0400, lusfert wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 04:30:41PM +0400, lusfert wrote: >>> >>> I know 2 cross-platform solutions: CrossCrypt >>> >>>A quo

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-08 Thread zvrba
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 08:01:15PM +0400, lusfert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 04:30:41PM +0400, lusfert wrote: > > > >>I know 2 cross-platform solutions: CrossCrypt > >> > > > > A quote from the CrossCrypt homepage: "Denaiablity: You will not be able > > to tell

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-08 Thread lusfert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 04:30:41PM +0400, lusfert wrote: > >>I know 2 cross-platform solutions: CrossCrypt >> > > A quote from the CrossCrypt homepage: "Denaiablity: You will not be able > to tell that this file has been encrypted by filedisk as it looks > completely ra

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-08 Thread zvrba
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 04:30:41PM +0400, lusfert wrote: > > I know 2 cross-platform solutions: CrossCrypt > A quote from the CrossCrypt homepage: "Denaiablity: You will not be able to tell that this file has been encrypted by filedisk as it looks completely random and can have any extension you wi

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-08 Thread lusfert
nidhog wrote: > Hi, > > Do you guys have any suggestion as to how to go about encrypting a > partition that can be available both to linux and win32? > > Thanks. > I know 2 cross-platform solutions: CrossCrypt (http://www.scherrer.cc/crypt/) and FreeOTFE (http://www.freeotfe.org/). I haven't tri

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread markus reichelt
* Thomas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The use of prng generated data to seed another prng function is > utilized to compute data that is inherently random from the > previous generation. That is not my point, tho this might be the case. :) If this generated data is used once, it's ok. If n

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Jones
markus reichelt wrote: * Thomas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: on a sidenote, using /dev/urandom is a bad idea. f.e. the standard slackware install and other distros as well have the following code (or something similar) in /etc/rc.d/rc.S: The above statement, although worthwhile

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread markus reichelt
* Thomas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >on a sidenote, using /dev/urandom is a bad idea. f.e. the standard > >slackware install and other distros as well have the following code > >(or something similar) in /etc/rc.d/rc.S: > > > The above statement, although worthwhile, is not well founded.

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread David Picon Alvarez
A hardware solution cannot be scrutinized for security. --David. ___ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Jones
markus reichelt wrote: * Thomas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John W. Moore III wrote: Running Knoppix from the CD I encrypted the Linux partition and it's virtually invisible. (unless one knows my HD size) What do you mean by this statement? Are you referring to the /random

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread markus reichelt
* Thomas Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John W. Moore III wrote: > >Running Knoppix from the CD I encrypted the Linux partition and > >it's virtually invisible. (unless one knows my HD size) > What do you mean by this statement? Are you referring to the > /randomization of the partition by use

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Jones
John W. Moore III wrote: Running Knoppix from the CD I encrypted the Linux partition and it's virtually invisible. (unless one knows my HD size) What do you mean by this statement? Are you referring to the randomization of the partition by use of /dev/urandom? I also created a small FAT32 par

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread Ryan Malayter
On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 10:07 +0800, nidhog wrote: >Do you guys have any suggestion as to how to go about encrypting a >partition that can be available both to linux and win32? Why not use a hardware solution, so it sits underneath the OS entirely? Seagate makes a new laptop drive that has built-in

Re: Disk Partition

2005-10-07 Thread John W. Moore III
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Eric wrote: >> On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 10:07 +0800, nidhog wrote: >> > Do you guys have any suggestion as to how to go about encrypting a partition that can be available both to linux and win32? > >> >> >> It's not easy to do this, and I don'