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Re: gonzo cryptography; how would you improve existing cryptosystems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Thornburg)
Tue Nov 8 09:54:59 2005
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Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2005 12:15:42 +0100 (CET)
From: Jonathan Thornburg <jthorn@aei.mpg.de>
To: Jason Holt <jason@lunkwill.org>
Cc: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com,
cypherpunks@jfet.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511072037360.20006@pl2.zayda.com>
On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Travis H. wrote:
> PS: There's a paper on cryptanalyzing CFS on my homepage below. I
> got to successfully use classical cryptanalysis on a relatively modern
> system! That is a rare joy. CFS really needs a re-write, there's no
> real good alternatives for cross-platform filesystem encryption to my
> knowledge.
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Jason Holt wrote:
> Take a look at ecryptfs before rewriting cfs:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ecryptfs
Nice, but linux-only and requires special kernel support. cfs supports
lots and lots of different OSs and doesn't require kernel modes. So far
as I know, in this regard cfs is unique among cryptographic filesystems.
ciao,
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