Re: full-disk subversion standards released

2009-02-02 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
I wrote: | Indeed, the classic question is I've just bought this new computer | which claims to have full-disk encryption. Is there any practical | way I can assure myself that there are (likely) no backdoors in/around | the encryption? | | For open-source software encryption (be it swap-space,

Re: Obama's secure PDA

2009-02-02 Thread Ivan Krstić
On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:17 PM, Ivan Krstić wrote: I'd find mobile e-mail just as useful if it went through a proxy that stripped out _everything_ that's not plaintext. I open attachments on my phone about once in a blue moon, and wouldn't miss the ability if it were gone. As a postscript,

Re: full-disk subversion standards released

2009-02-02 Thread Peter Gutmann
Ben Laurie b...@links.org writes: Apart from the obvious fact that if the TPM is good for DRM then it is also good for protecting servers and the data on them, In which way, and for what sorts of protection? And I mean that as a serious inquiry, not just a Did you spill my pint? question. At

XKCD shows the real world of cryptography to the masses

2009-02-02 Thread Matt Crawford
Perry, I couldn't possibly be the first to pass along today's XKCD, could I? http://xkcd.com/538/ - The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending unsubscribe cryptography to majord...@metzdowd.com