Re: Can you keep a secret? This encrypted drive can...

2006-11-06 Thread Saqib Ali
I compile a lot of software on my laptop, and I *certainly notice* the difference between my office laptop (no encryption) and my travel laptop (with FDE). The laptops are exactly the same, with the same image loaded. The only difference is the FDE software that is installed on the travel laptop.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [fc-announce] USEC'07 CFP Extended Deadline (Nov 12)]

2006-11-06 Thread R. Hirschfeld
From: Rachna Dhamija [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [fc-announce] USEC'07 CFP Extended Deadline (Nov 12) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:34:40 -0800 Please note that the USEC'07 submission deadline has been extended from November 5 to November 12. This workshop will be co-located

Re: Can you keep a secret? This encrypted drive can...

2006-11-06 Thread Peter Gutmann
Alexander Klimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If a PC is used by an interactive user, it is irrelevant how much access time is increased, as far as the user cannot see a difference without a timer. Several times I have read that disk encryption is not noticeable. I agree that in most cases the

A new generation of hash functions SNMAC

2006-11-06 Thread vlastimil . klima
We would like to announce: - A new cryptographic primitive SBC (special block cipher) - A family of hash functions SNMAC as candidates for hash functions of new generation The paper A New Concept of Hash Functions SNMAC Using a Special Block Cipher and NMAC/HMAC Constructions was sent to

Re: Can you keep a secret? This encrypted drive can...

2006-11-06 Thread Ralf Senderek
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Alexander Klimov wrote: I guess many people here have tried full disk encryption for themselves, do you notice any difference in performance or not? Yes and no! I use dm-crypt on a Linux laptop with FC5. On the encrypted filesystem: # df /dev/mapper/secure 309895

Cypherpunks make the OED :-)

2006-11-06 Thread Bill Stewart
James Gleick's NYT article on the OED mentions cypherpunk among the words recently added to the dictionary. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/magazine/05cyber.html?pagewanted=all The page requires registration to access, though there are enough popular pseudonyms that have done so; I don't know

Re: Can you keep a secret? This encrypted drive can...

2006-11-06 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Alexander Klimov wrote: I guess many people here have tried full disk encryption for themselves, do you notice any difference in performance or not? I've been using Matt Blaze's CFS (cryptographic file system) to encrypt personal E-mail archives since 1994 or so. CFS is

Re: Cypherpunks make the OED :-)

2006-11-06 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:10:28 -0800, Bill Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James Gleick's NYT article on the OED mentions cypherpunk among the words recently added to the dictionary. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/magazine/05cyber.html?pagewanted=all The page requires registration to

Phd thesis on voting

2006-11-06 Thread Mads Rasmussen
I haven't seen this mentioned here: Ben Adida did a Phd thesis on voting at MIT (ended this August) http://ben.adida.net/research/phd-thesis.pdf At his blog there is more material available such as conference slides, paper etc. http://benlog.com/ (end of page) -- Mads Rasmussen LEA -

Re: Can you keep a secret? This encrypted drive can...

2006-11-06 Thread Leichter, Jerry
| ...Compusec is great for home / personal use. It is cheap i.e. $0.00 | (Free), and does not slow down the computer as much as the other | products. But that is because it only support 128 bit AES, which is a | major drawback as most enterprise settings require at least 256 bit | AES Just

Re: Can you keep a secret? This encrypted drive can...

2006-11-06 Thread Jason Holt
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Ralf Senderek wrote: On the unencrypted filesystem: # time dd if=/dev/zero of=cryptogram bs=1MB count=50 50+0 records in 50+0 records out 5000 bytes (50 MB) copied, 0.216106 seconds, 231 MB/s real0m0.257s user0m0.000s sys 0m0.252s Unless you have a disk