At 01:56 AM 6/18/00 -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
>At 12:12 PM 6/13/00 -0400, David Honig wrote:
>>When you read about losing laptops in Los Alamos (and London), you have
>>to wonder: why don't those folks encrypt their drives? They
>>are somehow thinking physical security is sufficient, and slacking
>>off otherwise.
>
>Probably because the standard PC software doesn't come with
>military-quality encryption.
But there's good stuff out there free, with source code (e.g,
Scramdisk). The NSA's budget was too tight to check this out?
They didn't have anyone qualified to write their own? Please.
>To some extent it may be because publicly available crypto algorithms
>aren't NSA-approved for military use, so there's no COTS code,
>though there may be NSA-built similar products.
Not-invented-here is no excuse.
