Re: Status in 2007 of: loop-aes VS dm-crypt VS truecrypt
Unweitze Enweister <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.cryptography |
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| Organization | (sometimes) |
| Message-ID | <20070531153402.GC5864@errant> |
* Christian Kujau <[email protected]> [2007-05-30 17:28:29 +0100]: > With dm-crypt properly set up, that should NOT be a problem, remember: > > "[...] if I take a letter and lock it in a safe, and then > give you the safe along with the design specifications of the safe and > a hundred identical safes with their combinations so that you and the > world's best safecrackers can study the locking mechanism--and you > still can't open the safe and read the letter, that's security." > - Bruce Schneier Correct. Still, being paranoid, I don't wish to hand my adversary my playbook - even if the adversary hasn't learned to read it yet. It narrows down what he has to learn to read. Regards, Unweitze - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/