DES & IDEA built right into the Linux kernel...

[The Deviant]

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On 15 Jul 1996, Ian Goldberg wrote:

> Date: 15 Jul 1996 13:07:20 -0700
> From: Ian Goldberg <iang at cs.berkeley.edu>
> To: cypherpunks at toad.com
> Newsgroups: isaac.lists.cypherpunks
> Subject: Re: DES & IDEA built right into the Linux kernel...
> 
> In article <199607130507.WAA25103 at myriad>,
> Anonymous <nobody at mockingbird.alias.net> wrote:
> >> Nicholas Leon <nicholas at binary9.net> has created tools that allow DES
> >> and IDEA encryption at the device level for the Linux kernel.  Some of
> >> the patches are in the 2.0.4 kernel, and the rest can be found at
> >>
> >>     http://www.binary9.net/nicholas/linuxkernel/patches/
> >
> >
> >Yep, you can mount encrypted files or partitions as filesystems. (sorta
> >like securedrive/securedevice for messydos.)  Nifty stuff...
> 
> Except that last I checked (2.0.6) it was completely insecure.  The
> DES-encrypted filesystem ignored your password and always used a key of
> all 0's (which is a weak key in DES, to boot).  I've been touching it up
> to do DES and IDEA _right_ (CBC mode within each block, IV based on block
> number), and plan to put in some simple stego as well.
> 
>    - Ian

Hrmm.. Sounds interesting... how long till your patch is done?

 --Deviant


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