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Re: comments wanted on gbde
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James A. Donald)
Tue Mar 15 10:36:03 2005
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From: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:13:31 -0800
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I can see no faults in gbde other than that it is too clever by
half. The implementor imagined various vaguely imagined
complicated attacks, and put in all sorts of overly clever
stuff to defeat them.
Let us stick with the threat model where the bad guys kick down
your door and yank your computer off your desk. If your
cleaning lady is out to get you, it is much easier to create
software that creates a false and misleading sense of security,
than software that stops her.
--digsig
James A. Donald
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