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Date:      Sun, 01 Dec 2002 20:42:02 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, "" <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/geom/bde g_bde_crypt.c 
Message-ID:  <68474.1038771722@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 01 Dec 2002 13:30:02 CST." <20021201132914.B99265-100000@patrocles.silby.com> 

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In message <20021201132914.B99265-100000@patrocles.silby.com>, Mike Silbersack 
writes:
>
>On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> phk         2002/12/01 07:50:48 PST
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/geom/bde         g_bde_crypt.c
>>   Log:
>>   Conceiveably, there may exist an algorithm which can tell if a sequence of bytes
>>   are the output of AES/128/CBC or ARC4RANDOM.  Encrypt the random data with which
>>   we wipe when we get a BIO_DELETE to make such an algorithm useful.
>
>Did you mean useless?

Yes, of course I did.

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