[nycbug-talk] Re: Linux Cryptoloop

[G. Rosamond]

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>[mailto:talk-bounces at lists.nycbug.org] On Behalf Of felix zaslavskiy
>Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 5:31 AM
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>Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] Re: Linux Cryptoloop
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>> Roland said. . .
>> 
>> >They use hashalot to generate the key from a passphrase and it is
>> >just a simple hash or a salted hash rather than an industry standard
>> >passphrase->key algorithm such as PKCS#5 PBKDF2 (which I use in
>> >CGD.)  I do not understand exactly why everyone feels it is 
>necessary
>> >to play amateur cryptographer when there are accepted ways to do
>> >these things that have been scrutinised by people who actually
>> >understand the issues involved.  This is actually a rather large
>> >pet peeve of mine, I mean if you presume that you know better than
>> >professional cryptographers how to turn a passphrase into a key
>> >then why don't you just write your own crypto algorithms, too? 
>
>Lets just use lanman hash.

or just Caesarian-style transpostion.

g