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FromKeith Owens <>
SubjectRe: Encrypted filesystem
DateSat, 01 Feb 1997 11:15:33 +1100
On Fri, 31 Jan 1997 17:44:57 +0100 (MET), 
Stephan Meyer <sensei@munich.netsurf.de> wrote:
>Is there a strong but secure algorithm? (I do not trust DES :)

Safer (also known as SFK) 128 is claimed to be as strong as triple DES,
it is public domain and is fast.  It's main drawback is that it is a
block rather than stream cipher, it will only handle data in chunks of
8 bytes.  If the filesystem blocks are a multiple of 8 bytes and you
encrypt filesystem blocks rather than filesystem data then you should
have no problems.

ftp://ftp.isi.ee.ethz.ch/pub/simpl/safer.V1.2.tar.Z



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