<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)">FWIW I distrust encrypted drives using hardware encryption. This came out just a few days ago: <a href="https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/self-encrypting-ssd-hacking.html">https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/self-encrypting-ssd-hacking.html</a>: Flaws in Popular Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Decrypt Data.</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:15 PM Nicholas Papadonis <<a href="mailto:nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com">nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Interesting.  How about this for a start?<div><br></div><div><a href="http://nickpapadonis.com/images-share/summerian-ancient-mesopotamia-ancient-lock.jpg" target="_blank">http://nickpapadonis.com/images-share/summerian-ancient-mesopotamia-ancient-lock.jpg</a><br></div><div><a href="http://nickpapadonis.com/images-share/anunnaki1.jpg" target="_blank">http://nickpapadonis.com/images-share/anunnaki1.jpg</a><br></div><div><a href="http://nickpapadonis.com/images-share/summerian-Winged_Human-headed_Bulls.JPG" target="_blank">http://nickpapadonis.com/images-share/summerian-Winged_Human-headed_Bulls.JPG</a><br></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 7:21 PM <a href="mailto:openssl@foocrypt.net" target="_blank">openssl@foocrypt.net</a> <<a href="mailto:openssl@foocrypt.net" target="_blank">openssl@foocrypt.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Courier New">Hi Nick</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:21px"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Courier New">Have You tried The FooKey Method ? <a href="https://foocrypt.net/the-fookey-method" target="_blank">https://foocrypt.net/the-fookey-method</a></font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:21px"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Courier New">Also,</font></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:21px"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Courier New">I will be sourcing public addendum's as addendum's to my submission into the </font></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"><font face="Courier New">Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security </font></span><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">[ <a href="https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Intelligence_and_Security/TelcoAmendmentBill2018/Submissions" target="_blank">https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/Joint/Intelligence_and_Security/TelcoAmendmentBill2018/Submissions</a> ] regarding the committee’s review of the 'Telecommunication and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018' after the Melbourne Cup. It will be similar to the open request for the Defence Trade Control Act review performed by the former Inspector General of Intelligence, Dr Vivian Thom.</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:21px"><font face="Courier New"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);min-height:21px"><span style="font-family:"Courier New""><a href="https://foocrypt.net/independent-review-of-the-defence-trade-controls-act-2012-cth-call-for-information-for-submission-as-a-case-study-from-the-openssl-community" target="_blank">https://foocrypt.net/independent-review-of-the-defence-trade-controls-act-2012-cth-call-for-information-for-submission-as-a-case-study-from-the-openssl-community</a></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">-- </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Regards,</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Mark A. Lane   </span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Cryptopocalypse NOW 01 04 2016</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Volumes 0.0 -> 10.0 Now available through iTunes - iBooks @ <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/au/author/mark-a.-lane/id1100062966?mt=11" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/au/author/mark-a.-lane/id1100062966?mt=11</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Cryptopocalypse NOW is the story behind the trials and tribulations encountered in creating "FooCrypt, A Tale of Cynical Cyclical Encryption."</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">"FooCrypt, A Tale of Cynical Cyclical Encryption." is aimed at hardening several commonly used Symmetric Open Source Encryption methods so that they are hardened to a standard that is commonly termed 'QUANTUM ENCRYPTION'.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">"FooCrypt, A Tale of Cynical Cyclical Encryption." is currently under export control by the Australian Department of Defence Defence Export Controls Office due to the listing of Cryptology as a ‘Dual Use’ Technology as per the ‘Wassenaar Arrangement’</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">A permit from Defence Export Control is expected within the next 2 months as the Australian Signals Directorate is currently assessing the associated application(s) for export approval of "FooCrypt, A Tale of Cynical Cyclical Encryption."</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Early releases of "Cryptopocalypse NOW" will be available in the period leading up to June, 2016.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">Limited Edition Collectors versions and Hard Back Editions are available via the store on <a href="http://www.foocrypt.net/" target="_blank">http://www.foocrypt.net/</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo;min-height:13px"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures"></span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">© Mark A. Lane 1980 - 2016, All Rights Reserved.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px;font-size:11px;line-height:normal;font-family:Menlo"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:no-common-ligatures">© FooCrypt 1980 - 2016, All Rights Reserved.</span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:normal;font-variant-caps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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 5 Nov 2018, at 10:35, Nicholas Papadonis <<a href="mailto:nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com" target="_blank">nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_4888513742653726759m_-9212464720376655240Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">Comments<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 5:56 PM Bear Giles <<a href="mailto:bgiles@coyotesong.com" target="_blank">bgiles@coyotesong.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">> <span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">I'm considering encrypting a tar archive and optionally a block file system (via FUSE) using either utility</span><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br>Linux has good support for encrypted filesystems. Google LUKS. </span></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">BTW a tar file starts with the name of the first entry. The 'magic numbers' are at offset 128 or so. However a compressed tar file will start with a known value since gzip, b2zip, and 7zip?, all start with their magic values.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Does tar placing known data at a certain offset increase the probability that someone can perform an attack easier?  They may already know the data to decrypt at that offset and if the encrypted block overlaps, then the attack is easier.   </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div></div></div>
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