Re: Why the poor uptake of encrypted email? [Was: Re: Secrets and cell phones.]

2008-12-11 Thread James A. Donald
-- > > We discovered, however, that most people do not want > > to manage their own secrets StealthMonger wrote: > This may help to explain the poor uptake of encrypted > email. There is very good uptake of skype and ssh, because those impose no or very little additional cost on the end

Re: CPRNGs are still an issue.

2008-12-11 Thread James A. Donald
Jack Lloyd wrote: > I think the situation is even worse outside of the > major projects (the OS kernels crypto implementations > and the main crypto libraries). I think outside of > those, nobody is even really looking. For instance - > > This afternoon I took a look at a C++ library called > JUCE

Re: AES HDD encryption was XOR

2008-12-11 Thread dan
Victor Duchovni writes: -+- | The computing power of the microprocessor is still under | 32 powers of 2 from its inception, naive extrapolation | to the next 32 powers of 2 is unwise. Well taken, indeed. But what I am myself interested in is the relationship of the three m