[715] in Cypherpunks
Crypto anarchy in a VW? (not the bug)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Hughes)
Tue Jun 1 17:28:03 1993
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 93 13:40:02 -0700
From: Eric Hughes <hughes@soda.berkeley.edu>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Jim McCoy's message of Tue, 1 Jun 1993 14:55:35 -0500 (CDT) <199306011955.AA29541@flubber.cc.utexas.edu>
I argue that encrypted hard disks should be encrypted at the transfer
level.
>Actually I was sort of thinking of the keying being done on a per-user
>basis.
Never fear. Layered encryption is the way of the future. One layer
of encryption for the disk as a whole, another for the users. When
the stuff gets cheap enough, it will be everywhere.
The question is "Who is your opponent?" If you are concerned with the
users against each other, then use user level encryption. If you are
concerned with the outside world against the machine, then encrypt at
the disk controller or device driver level. If you are concerned
about both, then do both.
Eric
