Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Jason Rivard wrote: > Wait for my private mail, Mr. Walters. I wouldn't bother with a private mail Jason. Tomorrow Chris will calm down, take a deep breath and probably contribute to the list again. It pretty much always works that way. Maybe he's quick to anger. Wel

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
"Jason Rivard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 23:53:23 > > > The only thing that cryptography attempts to do is reduce the > > > **probability** of cracking the key and gaining access to the data as > > > low as possible. > > > > No news. That's, why cryptology defines "security" n

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Jason Rivard
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:51 PM, Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Or perhaps you doubt that they can crack any keys at all... >>> >> >> Don't get smart with me, jackass. >> > > Fuck off, shitehead. Call me a jackass, when I simply state facts you > admitted to?

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Jason Rivard
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Sebastian Wiesner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 22:25:18 > > Are you a cryptology expert? > > Are you then? I doubt that either of you are cryptology experts. I've known a few, and I am a crypto-expert

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
Alan McKinnon wrote: Or perhaps you doubt that they can crack any keys at all... Don't get smart with me, jackass. Fuck off, shitehead. Call me a jackass, when I simply state facts you admitted to? You're a fucking idiot. Welcome to my ignore list. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailin

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: > | This is the point where I start to ask for a citation and stop > | listening to theoretical possibilities and things that might > | possibly could be. Unless of course the exact meaning of phrases > | like "three hundred thousand million years" ha

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 22:25:18 > Are you a cryptology expert? Are you then? > The only thing that cryptography attempts to do is reduce the > **probability** of cracking the key and gaining access to the data as low > as possible. No news. That's, why

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alan McKinnon wrote: | On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: |> Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |> | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they |> | use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the |> | key of

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Chris Walters wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they > | use themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the > | key of the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's > | assumptions, would keep

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: | If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they use | themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the key of the | GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's assumptions, would keep 15 | milli

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Sebastian Wiesner wrote: | Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 17:14:20 | |> | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], |> | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > If it is so easy for them to crack our ciphers (and the one they use > themselves, btw.), why doesn't Kasperky ask them to crack the key of > the GPCode virus which, according to Kaspersky's assumptions, would > keep 15 million modern PCs busy for

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Sebastian Wiesner
Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Wednesday 25 June 2008, 17:14:20 > | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], > | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even > | weaker algorithms can protect your data against laptop thieves. You had be

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 schrieb Chris Walters: > | Rumor has it that the three-letter agencies (CIA, KGB, M.A.V.O. [2], > | etc) can break those algorithms relatively easy. On the other hand even > | weaker algorithms can protect your data against laptop thieves. > > That's more than a rumor.

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Daniel Iliev wrote: | On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:20:20 -0400 | Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] | Perhaps they appear as kernel modules? I'm just guessing. I think that is how they are supposed to appear, but I can't seem to get them to

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:20:20 -0400 Chris Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Thanks to all who replied to my previous question. This question is > related. Has anyone gotten the 'extra-ciphers' (you can get them from > the loop-aes site) to

Re: [gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 25. Juni 2008 schrieb ext Chris Walters: > Also, someone said that it was possible to encrypt using multiple > passphrases using dm-crypt. That was me. To be correct: I wrote that with LUKS (which is based on dm-crypt) it is possible to use multiple keys (a key may be a passphrase o

[gentoo-user] loop-aes + extra-ciphers...

2008-06-24 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Thanks to all who replied to my previous question. This question is related. Has anyone gotten the 'extra-ciphers' (you can get them from the loop-aes site) to compile with the loop-aes kernel patch in place? If so, could you give me a hint on how