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Jimbo
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Be careful with crypto

Heise security are running a very interesting article at the moment about a USB drive they have tested.

It claimed to be 128 bit AES encrypted, but the testing showed that the data was actually only protected by a simple XOR cypher.

http://www.heise-online.co.uk/security/features/print/110136

I guess the moral of this is that we have to be very careful what we buy.... I think that I'll stick to TrueCrypt for a while. Open source, peer-reviewed code is a lot more likely to actually do what it claims to.

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Same here

i dont really like software that has to be bought, there always seems to be some kind of problem with the software or something always messes up.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi,
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

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I don't even

have a credit card. You expect me to buy software? Why pay for something that's free, open, and made by friends?

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Patrick Patience
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And Quote:

i dont really like software that has to be bought

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rab040ma
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And here I thought the "made

And here I thought the "made by friends" was the best.

MC

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Absolutely

yes...

... specially after they made the software and you use it... Wink

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report Biggrin

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