Re: Safehouse Volume Encryption (was Re: Meganet Challenge)

Andrew Meredith (meredith@mot.com)
Mon, 22 Jun 1998 09:24:35 +0100

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Kriston J. Rehberg wrote:
>
> Seeing that we're looking at Meganet, has anyone crytanalyzed
> Safehouse Volume Encryption from www.pcdynamics.com? It has a
> huge choice of encryption algorithms with which to encrypt the
> volume file and the private key is encrypted using a hashed
> passphrase; also it seems to use public-key encryption since you
> can optionally "brand" the encrypted volume so that an
> administrator can decrypt the data.
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Kris

Oh dear.

I kind of assumed that this was kosher. I had a chat with some the folks
involved and they didn't appear to be hiding anything. They were using
pretty standard algorithms, in pretty ordinary ways. There didn't seem
to be any of the sort of pseudo-crypto-wibble that one usually
associates with essence of Adder.

What makes you suspicious .. maybe I've been had ??

Andy M

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