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Re: Encrypting root partition
Utter nonsense.
On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 10:51:41AM -0400, Eric Benzacar wrote:
> Thanks, but I undestand encryption quite well. Acutally helped design an
> new concept algorithm here for a univeristy prof a couple of years ago. But
> I don't kidd myself. Any and all encryption algorithms out there (no matter
> how big the key) are failable. It's all a question of finding the weakness.
> Granted, if you're looking at brute force attacks, where the keys change on
> a regular basis, you're up against a much tougher challenge. Which is one
> of the reasons that 128bit SSL encryption is considered secure. But if
> you're talking about the same key encrypting and decrypting the same
> information over long periods of time, it doesn't take enormous amounts of
> computing power to hack through. Besides, with distributed computing
> nowadays, using hundreds of thousands of processors in parallel, can you
> really expect someone to believe that any encryption is secure? Even steg
> is not undetectable. Difficult, certainly. Infallable? Absolutely not.
>
> Eric
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harmon Seaver" <hseaver@cybershamanix.com>
> To: "Eric Benzacar" <benze@mail-me.com>
> Cc: <linux-crypto@nl.linux.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 10:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Encrypting root partition
>
>
> > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 03:14:18AM -0400, Eric Benzacar wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't expect any form of encryption to be very sturdy... But was
> hoping
> > > to make it just a bit more obscure....
> > >
> > Encryption not sturdy? Are you kidding? Not even all the NSA
> computers can
> > break any of the decent modern cyphers. You seem to be more than a bit
> confused
> > on what this is all about, maybe you need to study some basic texts on
> > encryption.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Harmon Seaver
> > CyberShamanix
> > http://www.cybershamanix.com
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Harmon Seaver
CyberShamanix
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