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Date:      Thu, 4 May 2000 10:53:13 +0200
From:      Terje Elde <telde@online.no>
To:        "Andrew J. Korty" <ajk@iu.edu>
Cc:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cryptographic dump(8)
Message-ID:  <20000504105313.E350@tld.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005031329440.21805-100000@kobayashi.uits.iupui.edu>; from ajk@iu.edu on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 01:39:26PM -0500
References:  <200005031718.KAA63329@apollo.backplane.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005031329440.21805-100000@kobayashi.uits.iupui.edu>

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* Andrew J. Korty (ajk@iu.edu) [000504 09:27]:
> That sounds good, but I should probably leave the very first
> header as cleartext.  That way, I can put a flag there to tell
> restore whether or not this tape is encrypted or not.

... and which algorithm is used for symmetric encryption, as well as hash. You
probably also want to stuff in some block sizes.

Terje
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