[24403] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: encrypted file system issues (was Re: PGP "master keys")
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Travis H.)
Mon May 1 21:41:59 2006
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Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 17:37:16 -0500
From: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com>
To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <877j5522ku.fsf_-_@snark.piermont.com>
On 5/1/06, Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> Not if you design it correctly. Disk encryption systems like CGD work
> on the block level, and do not propagate CBC operations across blocks,
So is it vulnerable to any of the attacks here?
http://clemens.endorphin.org/LinuxHDEncSettings
I used to run NetBSD 1.6 IIRC, and for some reason cgd was in previous
and later releases but not that one. I found that puzzling.
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