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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Future decryption
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:13:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091103141314.GA19487@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AF02B25.7080400@cenditel.gob.ve>

That makes very little sense for filesystem encryption.

And actually, I do not believe there is any good way
way of implementing such a concept in the first place.
Time is just a number to a cryptosystem, and that 
number is one of the very few things that can be well
predicted, hence it can be faked.

Thinks like hardware modules that release a key after a 
predefined time do not count. They are not a cryptographic
approach.

Arno


On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 08:37:49AM -0430, Antonio Araujo Brett wrote:
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> Is it possible to use dm-crypt to implement future decryption?
> (protecting a document before a predefined time).
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> Best Regards
> 
> Antonio Araujo Brett
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-03 14:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-03 13:07 [dm-crypt] Future decryption Antonio Araujo Brett
2009-11-03 14:13 ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2009-11-03 18:47   ` Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe
2009-11-03 23:13     ` Arno Wagner
2009-11-03 18:55   ` Antonio Araujo Brett

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