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Re: British Ministers Adopt Unbreakable Crypto




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In <[email protected]>, on 01/19/98 
   at 06:30 PM, Eric Cordian <[email protected]> said:

>Anyone know what they actually use to sector encrypt the file system on
>these things?  It would be somewhat amusing if it were snake oil
>based.

It may not be snake-oil but you can bet it will be GAKed. I can just
imagine some poor clerk tying to explain to one of those boneheads that
they can't get their files just because they forgot their passphrases. I
wouldn't be suprised if there were several keys floating around that would
give access to one of those machines.

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