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Re: Comments on ppdd?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gigi Sullivan)
Tue Oct 13 17:01:57 1998
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 16:29:38 +0200 (CEST)
From: Gigi Sullivan <sullivan@seclab.com>
To: Laura Bassi <lbassi@nym.alias.net>
Cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <19981010015404.7947.qmail@nym.alias.net>
Howdy to all there :)
On 10 Oct 1998, Laura Bassi wrote:
> Date: 10 Oct 1998 01:54:04 -0000
> From: Laura Bassi <lbassi@nym.alias.net>
> To: cryptography@c2.net
> Subject: Comments on ppdd?
>
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> Have any of the other readers of this list used Allan
> Latham's ppdd encrypted file system?
>
> <http://pweb.de.uu.net/flexsys.mtk>
>
> We are considering its use for vulnerable laptop computers,
> as it appears that it might provide a faster and more
> straightforward alternative to our usual cfs.
>
Well, sincerly I've never tried ppdd, but I recently seen another good
(IMHO) cryptografy file system called TCFS (Transparent Cryptografy File
System) developed by an italian group of students.
Check out http://tcfs.dia.unisa.it
AFAIK you can use IDEA, DES and maybe 3-DES as encryption algorithms.
It runs under linux as kernel module (there's also a user daemon).
Some porting are in work (BSD, OSF/1, WinNT).
All this is under GPL :)
> Its core is an assembly-coded Blowfish implementation, which
> seems to have been done correctly, but I've seen no
> discussion of ppdd's relative merits.
>
> - --
> Laura Bassi
> Bologna, 10.10.1998
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bye bye
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