At 12:01 PM +1200 5/10/07, Robin Sheat wrote:
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> On Wednesday 09 May 2007 02:11:05 ljknews wrote:
>> I would suggest two factor
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 02:11:05 ljknews wrote:
> I would suggest two factor authentication, requiring some smart card
> (with built-in keypad, to prevent intercept of the pin) that actually
> provides the decryption. Make the user keep the smart card with them,
> such as by requiring it for entr
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 03:00:12 SC-L Subscriber Dave Aronson wrote:
> What happens when the user changes his password? I didn't quite follow it
> all, but it looks to me like that means that all of a user's data has to be
> decrypted and re-encrypted. You didn't tell us how much data that is, s
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 05:04:53 you wrote:
> You go on to describe (I think) crypto operations that take place
> completely on the client site. What is the relationship between the
> encrypted data and server client->server communications?
For the purposes of this, there isn't. It was just to ill
Robin Sheat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wonders:
> What I did was take the user's password to create a key
What happens when the user changes his password? I didn't quite follow it all,
but it looks to me like that means that all of a user's data has to be
decrypted and re-encrypted. You didn'
At 10:09 PM +1200 5/8/07, Robin Sheat wrote:
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> I'm no security professional, just a programmer with a healthy interest in
> it
Robin Sheat wrote:
> Basically, I needed to encrypt the on-disk format of some data that is
> accessed as a seekable file (it's actually a Lucene index, but the details
> aren't too relevant). The use case for this is to ensure the data is kept
> private, even if the disk or computer the data is
