Re: svnd security

2006-04-04 Thread Darrin Chandler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds scary,specially for those of us who do not understand too much about computers, I basically wanted to know if there is any truth in all this or it just another persorn trying to sell his product well by undermining others. If the NSA really wants to get

Re: svnd security

2006-04-04 Thread kami petersen
It sounds scary,specially for those of us who do not understand too much about computers, I basically wanted to know if there is any truth in all this or it just another persorn trying to sell his product well by undermining others. say hello to the archives.

svnd security

2006-04-04 Thread zoraya
I recently read this in an interview dated December 2005 to a NetBSD programmer: "The biggest drawback of svnd is its lack of security in the general use case. It is vulnerable to an offline dictionary attack. That is, you can generate a database mapping known ciphertext blocks on the disk