[76970] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: It's a Presidential Mandate, Feds use it. How come you are not using FDE?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (james hughes)
Mon Jan 22 19:01:26 2007
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From: james hughes <hughejp@mac.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:40:27 -0500
To: Saqib Ali <docbook.xml@gmail.com>
On Jan 18, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Saqib Ali wrote:
>
> When is the last time you checked the code for the open source app
> that you "use", to make sure that it is written properly?
30 seconds ago.
What mode is it using? How much information is encrypted under a
single key. Was the implementation FIPS certified. And the list goes on.
These are important issues.
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