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Re: Help trying to setup an encypted filesystem.

To: Jari Ruusu <jariruusu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Help trying to setup an encypted filesystem.
From: Christopher Schadl <cschadl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:42:33 -0500
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On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 13:22, Jari Ruusu wrote:
> 
> Optimized dictionary attack:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=107419912024246&w=2
> 

Just so I have this straight - basically if you have a database
containing the entire keyspace of a given key length, you can brute
force a key as quickly as O(lg n) if the encrypting key isn't salted?

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References:
- Re: Help trying to setup an encypted filesystem.
  - From: Lohan Knight
- Re: Help trying to setup an encypted filesystem.
  - From: Thomas Sjögren
- Re: Help trying to setup an encypted filesystem.
  - From: Jari Ruusu

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