[42486] in Cypherpunks
Re: New release of CFS Unix encrypting file system available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael H. Warfield)
Sun Oct 29 10:54:26 1995
To: mab@crypto.com (Matt Blaze)
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 10:42:06 -0500 (EST)
From: "Michael H. Warfield" <mhw@wittsend.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199510282357.XAA09892@crypto.com> from "Matt Blaze" at Oct 28, 95 07:57:42 pm
Matt Blaze enscribed thusly:
>
> Anonymous writes:
> > >
> > >What happens to hard links?
> > >
> > >mkdir foo bar
> > >CFS_set_directory_key -directory ./foo -key foo-key
> > >CFS_set_directory_key -directory ./bar -key bar-key
> > >cp /etc/passwd ./foo/test1
> > >ln ./foo/footest ./bar/bartest
> > >cmp ./foo/footest ./bar/bartest
> >
> > This is a serious flaw. The emperor has no clothes. People should
> > sue at&t for this shit.
"Sue AT&T..." For free, unsupported software? In a remark's
from a coward hiding behind an anonymus remailer. For a problem
that is all in his own mind!
Give Me A Break!
> I'm not sure why I'm bothering to respond to this, but I'd hate to
> think someone might take the above message seriously and think that
> there's some kind of "serious flaw" in CFS demonstrated by this sequence
> of (hypothetical, incorrect) commands. So here goes:
Matt, you're responding to an annonymous twit spouting ignorant
ravings because if you didn't, some others would think this guy had something
significant to say. It's a sad state of afairs when someone creates a
great package like CFS and then has to deal with an annoyance like this.
> What on earth are you talking about?
You think he knows? You give him a lot more credit than I would!
> As I pointed out in a previous message, that's not how CFS works - you
> can't link across encrypted directories.
>
> There may be (and probably are) bugs in or attacks against CFS, but this
> isn't one of them.
To quote one of Gary Trudeau's characters from "Doonsburry" -
"Look! The clothes have no Empereror!"
> -matt
Mike
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