Subject: Re: FUD about CGD and GBDE
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: tech-security
Date: 03/04/2005 10:55:25
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 12:42:33AM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> The fact that you just need to break one single sector in CGD before
> you get the entire disk contents gives a disadvantage to CGD of
> 2^26 before we even consider the nature of the attack.  That is not
> conservative when it could have been trivially avoided.

The mechanisms gbde takes to avoid it are far from trivial.

--
Dan.

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