Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: Encrypted filesystem | Date | Sat, 01 Feb 1997 11:15:33 +1100 |
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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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