BruCON: Can we trust cryptography? [LWN.net]

BruCON: Can we trust cryptography?

Posted Oct 2, 2009 21:51 UTC (Fri) by zooko (subscriber, #2589)
Parent article: BruCON: Can we trust cryptography?

Here's the paper about the BitLocker encryption mode which includes the motivations for the
decisions:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/2/3/0238acaf-d3b...
0a0be4bbb36e/BitLockerCipher200608.pdf

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BruCON: Can we trust cryptography?

Posted Oct 2, 2009 21:54 UTC (Fri) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]

Oh, sorry, here it is again:

http://download.microsoft.com/download/0/2/3/0238acaf-d3b...
b3d6-0a0be4bbb36e/BitLockerCipher200608.pdf

Hm. LWN.net doesn't like this URL. Too long? Here's an indirection through a URL shortener
service: http://tr.im/Au0H

Anyway, I think the designers of BitLocker (mainly cryptographer Niels Ferguson -- disclosure: he's
a friend of mine) had fairly good reasons for doing it the way they did.