[117933] in Cypherpunks
Re: Paranoia == Forward Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff T Gordon)
Wed Sep 15 23:33:15 1999
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From: "Jeff T Gordon" <SomeOne@SomeWhere.net>
To: <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 10:04:45 -0000
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Reply-To: "Jeff T Gordon" <SomeOne@SomeWhere.net>
well its good to see IM not the only security freak out there
to grad my data now I encrypt all my important files individually and then
place them in a secure drive made by pgpdisk and then encrypt the pgpdisk
file then I encrypt partition that holds the pgpdisk and finally I encrypt
the files needed to unencrypt the partition and the encrypt pgpdisk file
and the files needed to unencrypt the pgpdisk its self and finally the file
needed to unencrypt the individual files so big brother would have to crack
levels of crypto I use the algorithms blowfish , cast , ghost
and oh ya did I mention I have a finger print security to boot my PC and
face recognition and voice recognition plus 21 char long passphrase to
unlock win nt4 but b4 you can do any of that I used the program that came
with WinNT 4 to make it where you have to have a disk b4 it will even try to
load windows and that disk is in my front pocket 24/7
----- Original Message -----
From: Anonymous <nobody@replay.com>
To: <cypherpunks@toad.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 7:01 PM
Subject: Paranoia == Forward Security
> If there's one thing that the whole MSNSAKEY debacle taught us, its that
> Paranoia == Forward Security.
>
> Forward Security is about taking more precautions than necessary.
> Forward Security is about the gazelle staying TWO steps ahead of the
cheetah just in case.
>
> Forward Security is about not giving up passphrase encrypted data to
Hushmail or
> @Backup, just in case.
>
> Of course, not that I think Hushmail is likely to feed me NarkApplet.class
under orders
> from the RCMP.
>
> Nor do I think it's likely @Backup is likely to feed me a password grabber
in their next
> upgrade (or the next, or the next...)
>
> Not that I think someone's looking over my shoulder right now...
>
> (BTW: @Backup keeps a copy of EVERY version of EVERY file in the targeted
directories.
> How many Megs of total data does the average user generate in a month,
including all
> those ~DF2A6B.tmp files, and the contents of C:\WINDOWS\TEMP/ORARY
INTERNET FILES which
> your average luser is bound to forget to exclude?)
>
> What about in fifteen years when we'll be able to differentially crack
56bit DES with a
> mere 40/50 Gigs of data, and a certain limey politician is firmly back in
the closet?)
>
> What about twenty years from now, when three burly Feds sit me in a
darkened room and
> give me the ultimatum, "We already have the files. Give us the keys and
we'll drop X."?
>
> I think I'm going to be keeping my encrypted keys, data and algorithms
under lock and
> key for the foreseeable future.
>
> Anon
>
>
