live-cd distro that writes to cd

[Henry Spencer]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, William Park wrote:
> > ...In fact, you *want* such data encrypted when it's stored on
> > such a device.
> 
> I don't buy into encryption hype, really.  Probably because I didn't go
> through Computer Science.  But, my feeling is that you get decryption
> key by adding 42 to the encryption key.  Why else would government allow
> such algorithm to be public?

Fortunately, this still being vaguely a free country, the government has
limited say in the matter.  The encryption algorithms that would typically
be chosen by someone competent (as opposed to Microsoft) have had a great
deal of scrutiny from people *not* affiliated with the government, and
pretty definitely don't have any such easy back doors.  (I speak as someone
who not only went through CS :-), but worked doing network encryption for 
several years.)

Various governments are not at all pleased about this, actually.  South of
the border, in particular, there have been several attempts to turn back
the clock and force everyone to use encryption systems with explicit back
doors in them.

                                                          Henry Spencer
                                                       henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org

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