Re: oramfs - ORAM filesystem written in Rust

2021-07-05 Thread Travis Biehn
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 5:07 PM Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> Karl, pleasure writing to you, I hope you understand a bit better why >> >> I'm asking about ORAM-FS's benefits. >> > >> > >> > I hear you asking with an eye towards when a large business or government >> > might find

Re: oramfs - ORAM filesystem written in Rust

2021-07-05 Thread Travis Biehn
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 4:40 PM Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hidden volumes solve for any type of coerced decryption. > > > That's what a rubber hose attack is. > >> >> I can use Tahoe-LAFS for personal backup and it'll be encrypted, but >> it wont have ORAM. Most academic work on

Re: oramfs - ORAM filesystem written in Rust

2021-07-05 Thread Travis Biehn
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 3:31 PM Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 5, 2021, 3:17 PM Travis Biehn wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 2:04 PM Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > I'm afraid I ca

Re: oramfs - ORAM filesystem written in Rust

2021-07-05 Thread Travis Biehn
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 2:04 PM Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm afraid I can't give a good answer because of my "locks" situation, but > obviously we are enswathed with multi-user disk situations, for real. Karl, If I asked 'what do you have to hide?' then I think your spidey sense

Re: oramfs - ORAM filesystem written in Rust

2021-07-05 Thread Travis Biehn
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 6:32 AM Karl Semich <0xl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> What are some motivations for a general oram fs? >> >> Travis > > > Travis, I felt quite scared and confused and a little angry reading this > question. What led you to ask it? What kind of plans are you hoping to >

Re: oramfs - ORAM filesystem written in Rust

2021-07-03 Thread Travis Biehn
On Sat, Jul 3, 2021 at 5:08 PM coderman wrote: > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Thursday, July 1st, 2021 at 5:01 PM, Peter Fairbrother pe...@tsto.co.uk > wrote: > > ... It seems simple to attack, 'oh look the > file(system) has been changed, the user wrote or deleted a file' > > therefore

Re: TechRadar: Multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Tor have been disclosed online

2020-08-01 Thread Travis Biehn
I've had several people question me on the integrity of Signal. This stems from a post where Cisco Talos revealed it had 'hacked' signal by stealing long term secrets out of the desktop client. Those poor regular folk are going as far as using inferior tech. The signature attack is unfortunate,

Re: X86 dispatch contention vulnerability

2018-11-14 Thread Travis Biehn
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 4:15 PM jim bell wrote: > > > On Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 11:52:43 AM PST, juan > wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 19:00:52 + (UTC) > > jim bell wrote: > > > >> My company, SemiDisk Systems, was very close to the first disk emulator > for a number of types of

Re: [liberationtech] Public Shielded Room Work

2018-10-15 Thread Travis Biehn
Hey Karl, Cool. On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 10:01 AM Karl wrote: > Thanks so much for your replies. > > On 10/14/2018 09:07 PM, grarpamp wrote: > > Consider utilizing a github / wiki somewhere for this project, > > People can join together to generate the motivations and goals, > > outline areas of

Re: Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned?

2017-09-25 Thread Travis Biehn
On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 10:44 AM, Georgi Guninski <gunin...@guninski.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 01:57:33PM -0400, Travis Biehn wrote: > > Yes - in addition, since some attackers have been shown to compromise not > > only UEFI firmware, but also blobs in per

Re: Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned?

2017-09-19 Thread Travis Biehn
On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 1:41 PM, Steve Kinney wrote: > > > On 09/19/2017 07:37 AM, Georgi Guninski wrote: > > Is it still good practice to reinstall everything after you are owned? > > > > It used to be, but after reading about windows viruses I am not sure it > > is. > >

Re: Are you also a Soviet Spy

2017-06-03 Thread Travis Biehn
Top-post. James, You're looking for a quick and easy way to discover all persons' political and ideological compatibility based on all public and private communications - of course, facilitated by some membership-based secret escrow scheme (backdoor.) In fact, a lot of different groups have this