FUD about CGD and GBDE

[Thor Lancelot Simon]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 05:31:34PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200503021910.j22JAGCH081224 at marlena.vvi.at>, "ALeine" writes:
> 
> >Not necessarily, if one were to implement the ideas I proposed
> >I believe the performance could be kept at the same level as now.
> 
> I gave up on journalling myself because IMO it complicates
> things a lot and the problem it solves is very very small.
> 
> The impact in disk seeks is non-trivial to predict, but it is
> very hard to argue that it will not lead to an increase in
> disk seeks.  (This is really a variant of the age old argument
> between jounaling filesystems and "traditional" filesystems)
> 
> I can only recommend that you try :-)
> 
> We need more ideas and more people trying out ideas.

I could not disagree more.  When it comes to nonstandard homebrewed
cryptosystems foisted off on unsuspecting users with a bundle of
claims of algorithm strength that they're not competent to evaluate
for themselves, we do not need more ideas, nor more people trying
out ideas; we need less.

Standard, widely analyzed cryptographic algorithms are good.

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 Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls at rek.tjls.com

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