On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 07:59:34PM -0500, T Taylor Gurney wrote:
> Are you familiar with loop-AES?
Not specifically, but I had heard of loop-device based encryption
before. The manpage for losetup states that support for such was removed
in favor of dm-crypt.
> My understanding is that the
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 9:54 AM T Taylor Gurney wrote:
> https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/implemented-my-own-crypto
>
> This person studied cryptography on his own for a while and then decided
> to roll his own crypto library. The result is a single .c file, about 3000
> lines, which received a
On Wed, 2022-06-15 at 17:30 +0200, Stefan Mark wrote:
> I was always a bit annoyed by the lack of a simple, gui-based
> bluetooth
> control thing. Like blueman, but not in a scripting language. And
> maybe
> with somewhat simpler interface.
>
> Thus i did this:
>
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 08:55:04AM +0200, Markus Wichmann wrote:
> In any case, you can write your own losetup; it is not the most
> complicated program in the world.
I do intend to. I noticed that ubase doesn't have one.
> I'm also weary of "rolling your own crypto". Unless you are a
>
>do not roll your own crypto
I believe this refers only to inventing your own algorithm, just
writing your own implementation of existing and tested algorithms is
fine.
Though, is encrypted root partition even desirable?
Since it only keeps your data safe when your machine is powered off, I
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 08:18:16PM +0300, an2qzavok wrote:
> >do not roll your own crypto
> I believe this refers only to inventing your own algorithm, just
> writing your own implementation of existing and tested algorithms is
> fine.
>
As I tried to point out with the MAC example, cryptography
Thanks a lot for this! I have switched to using it instead of
blueman-applet and it works great so far. The simple UI is so much
better than the maze of a menu that blueman seems to have. I love it!
Other than the criticisms mentioned by the other guy in the first reply,
I would ask if there is a
On 16/06/22 04:33pm, David Demelier wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> There is something wrong with the makefile because each time I type
> make it keeps rebuilding everything.
From having built it myself, I can confirm that change detection seems
to be broken for libsl/drw.c and all files in the libwdgt and
On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 11:20 AM an2qzavok wrote:
> >do not roll your own crypto
> I believe this refers only to inventing your own algorithm, just
> writing your own implementation of existing and tested algorithms is
> fine.
I've heard it in both contexts. The more popular context I've heard
