[104101] in Cypherpunks
Re: NT 5.0 and EFS -- A victory for widespread use of crypto?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Fri Oct 9 13:27:10 1998
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:05:00 -0400
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
To: Steve Dunlop <nospam@bitstream.net>, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <361BF3ED.8111C033@bitstream.net>; from Steve Dunlop on Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 06:06:21PM -0500
Reply-To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 06:06:21PM -0500, Steve Dunlop wrote:
| The white paper on the MSDN web site says it uses
| DESX (no explaination as to what the X is) and an
| RSA public key algorithm to store the symmetric keys,
| which are random for each file.
|
| So what's DESX?
DESX is where you xor the output of a des block with the key. Has
some interesting properties which McCurley? showed in Crypto 97
proceedings.
Adam
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