From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Kujau Subject: [OT] Re: ReiserFS problems Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:29:20 +0200 Message-ID: <3F338990.3040506@g-house.de> References: <20030806182055.A28562@bitwizard.nl> <3F3252A4.4010104@namesys.com> <20030807181227.GA23303@matchmail.com> <200308081018.31525.russell@coker.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200308081018.31525.russell@coker.com.au> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Russell Coker wrote: > system for storing a file-system image. If you use an XOR encryption method > it won't even hurt performance either. :-# sorry to hop in here, but i don't understand why an algorithm like "XOR" is named "encryption" at all. isn't it that another XOR operation just delivers the cleartext again? a b a 0 XOR 1 = 1 XOR b = 0 1 XOR 0 = 1 XOR b = 1 1 XOR 1 = 0 XOR b = 1 0 XOR 0 = 0 XOR b = 0 but i don't have to explain that to you... thanks, Christian. -- BOFH excuse #179: multicasts on broken packets