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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
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Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] Future decryption
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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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> Hi,
> 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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