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Re: Protection for quasi-offline memory nabbing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Lloyd)
Fri Mar 21 15:03:05 2008
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:05:52 -0400
From: Jack Lloyd <lloyd@randombit.net>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
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In-Reply-To: <CC30C099-2FA2-44C1-8572-672A17220122@callas.org>
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 09:46:45AM -0700, Jon Callas wrote:
> What operates like a block cipher on a large chunk?
> Tweakable modes like EME.
Or as a non-patented alternative one could use the Bear/Lion
constructions [1], which can encrypt arbitrary size blocks at
reasonably good speeds (depending on the performance characteristics
of the stream cipher and hash function they are instantiated with).
-Jack
[1] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/bear-lion.pdf
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