On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 03:57:46PM -0800, 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?
Yesterday, in the case of OpenSSL, though I was only looking at how
ASN.1 strings that store the subject CN
At 03:57 PM 1/18/2007, 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?
When is the last time you carefully checked the code for a closed source
app that you use? (Besides the one you mentioned to
At 01:55 PM 1/18/2007, John Denker wrote:
We would be better off maintaining just the one technical
definition of entropy, namely S = sum_i P_i log(1/P_i).
If you want to talk about something else, call it something
else ... or at least make it clear that you are using the
term in a nontechnical
As far as Full Disk Encryption's usefulness as a term goes,
I'd distinguish between several different kinds of applications
for encrypting the contents of a disk
1 - The disk drive or maybe disk controller card (RAID, SCSI, etc.)
encrypts all the bits written to the drive
and
