Re: Product request - Enterprise whole disk encryption for laptops

[Mark Newman <mnx () UTK EDU>]

I would imagine that MS's EFS would do a much better job at
~approaching~ "doing the right thing" than any rotational cipher...of
course, there are loopholes with EFS but, using any rotational cipher
and feeling like you've done anything more than just checking off a box
is self-defeating....rotational ciphers (and others) are what I call
'crayon encryption' (i.e. with a box of Crayolas and enough printer
paper, a child could break it) - note: my personal preference is a pen

...and there are those that believe that compression is a form of
encryption...

Mark Newman
University of Tennessee - Knoxville

On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 11:45 -0400, Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:53:48 EDT, Jeff Kell said:
> > Valdis Kletnieks wrote:
> > > Unfortunately, Adobe v. Skylarov (or was it v. Elcomsoft and Skylarov only
> > > got caught in the middle?) set a precedent that rot-13 was "encryption",
> > > at least for DMCA purposes.  Blech.
> >
> > Or it is really encrypted on the laptop, but the passphrase is taped to the
> > bottom, or the certificate is on the USB thumb drive still plugged in, or the
> > two-factor smart card is left in the laptop case, or... you get the idea.
>
> I meant that some sites might get the mistaken impression that rot-13 was
> enough crypto to use the "it was encrypted" loophole in many notification
> requirements to avoid having to actually Do The Right Thing....