[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Opiated file systems
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
On Tue, 16 Jul 1996, Deranged Mutant wrote:
> A problem with a c'punk-style encrypted fs with source code and wide
> distribution is, of course, that attackers will KNOW that there is a
> duress key.
I don't see how this would effect the security of such a filesystem. There
is absolutely nothing that an attacker can do to get the real key. An attacker
would just ignore all computers that have duress key capability.
- -- Mark
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
[email protected] | finger -l for PGP key 0xe3bf2169
http://www.voicenet.com/~markm/ | d61734f2800486ae6f79bfeb70f95348
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that
is granted, all else follows." --George Orwell, _1984_
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: 2.6.3
Charset: noconv
iQCVAwUBMewkJLZc+sv5siulAQEXVwP/Rs78lEERnz2HdtMAwnuSgwM7Bb1UZhTq
WWF439dp0NdyVRNw9HvV4vzX+HuES2sXZ2IIugsm7pCOQoUW6aAbY0AnPQ/38yt4
HbtwtWSH4BI9Fc/by7UXEwYY2rKmQYZw80ZPcsunNFNG19+PanjOlEulHZAH/3Q7
8wF1J7WO4WU=
=Jkfn
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----