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Date:      Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:55:25 +1100
From:      Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        ticso@cicely.de
Subject:   Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE
Message-ID:  <20050303235525.GC8805@bcd.geek.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <12311.1109893353@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <87ll94iait.fsf@snark.piermont.com> <12311.1109893353@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:42:33AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> The fact that you just need to break one single sector in CGD before
> you get the entire disk contents gives a disadvantage to CGD of
> 2^26 before we even consider the nature of the attack.  That is not
> conservative when it could have been trivially avoided.

The mechanisms gbde takes to avoid it are far from trivial.

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Dan.

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