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Re: gonzo cryptography; how would you improve existing cryptosystems?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Klimov)
Wed Dec 7 10:16:01 2005

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Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 13:56:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Alexander Klimov <alserkli@inbox.ru>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
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On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Jari Ruusu wrote:
>
> Unfortunately truecrypt is just another broken device crypto implementation
> that uses good ciphers in insecure way. Specially crafted static bit
> patterns are easily detectable through that kind of bad crypto.

Looks like they have fixed it: version 4.1 (2005-11-25) supports
tweakable narrow-block encryption (LRW).

-- 
Regards,
ASK

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