Re: crypto disk

2005-12-23 Thread Juha Erkkila
On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 07:32:27PM +0100, Ed White wrote: Quoting from: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6384 The biggest drawback of svnd is its lack of security in the general use case. It is vulnerable to an offline dictionary attack. That is, you can generate a database mapping known

crypto disk

2005-12-22 Thread Ed White
Quoting from: http://www.onlamp.com/lpt/a/6384 The biggest drawback of svnd is its lack of security in the general use case. It is vulnerable to an offline dictionary attack. That is, you can generate a database mapping known ciphertext blocks on the disk back into pass phrases that can be