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Friday 29 February 2008, 16:00-16:30
MD5crypt and GBDE: observations of a non-union cryptographer
- 👤 Speaker: Poul-Henning Kamp
- 📅 Date & Time: Friday 29 February 2008, 16:00 - 16:30
- 📍 Venue: Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room FW11
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Abstract
Cryptographers are great guys and smart people, but why don’t they ever produce code that solves the problems we have, and why do the whine when we do ?
MD5crypt, probably the worlds most widely used protection of passwords, was thrown together by a non-cryptographer in an afternoon, why did he have to ? (and why isn’t he too proud of it ?)
GBDE , an encrypted disk facility, took considerably more work in the second step of the Feynmann algorithm, and a solid beating from the cryptographers card-carrying union members, but did anybody learn anything and if so, what ?
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