Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 07:17:28 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> Cc: ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE Message-ID: <14392.1109917048@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:49:03 EST." <877jkogrr4.fsf@snark.piermont.com>
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In message <877jkogrr4.fsf@snark.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes: >I also very strongly suggest that the biggest real threat you face >isn't someone cracking AES but key management issues. CGD is in some >sense largely a framework for letting you do all sorts of neat things >with key management in a disk encryption context. You may want to add >similar features -- the most practical attack against your system as >it stands is a dictionary attack. This is where it would have been nice that you didn't jump into the middle of a discussion without reading the basic material. See my paper please. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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