NODE ce9d1e69Will Mike Ingle's name be a household word like "Buttafuoco"?
James Still <still@kailua.colorado.edu>Fri, 3 Dec 93 15:29:10 PST
Mike Ingle comments on his recently released "Secure
Drive" program:
>What's the BBS? If you want to, put up a notice or something.
[...]
>encrypt the BBS itself, and set up a relay to power it down
>if an alarm in your house goes off. Then you are raid-proof.
In case someone isn't familiar with Mike's excellent program,
it does for hard drives, what PGP does for messages. With
Secure Drive (ver 1.0) you can set up a partition on your hard
drive encrypt it (SecDrv uses the IDEA cipher for data and RSA
for your pass phrase just like PGP) and access the encrypted
drive from a TSR in your C drive.
In my opinion, this is the best example yet since PGP of
"cypherpunks writing code" because of the implications that
this program has on privacy. (I'm using it to keep a personal
space for my tax records, private correspondence, PGP dir, etc.),
but Mike's suggestion for encrypting an entire BBS itself
is a good point. What if *every* sysop encrypted their BBS
with Secure Drive?
His program is DOS freeware and available on the Hieroglyphic
Voodoo Machine BBS at +1.303.443.2457 (V.32bis) as SECDRV10.ZIP.
It is also available on soda.berkeley.edu I'm sure although I
haven't looked there myself.
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NODE 9dbbbfb9Re: Will Mike Ingle's name be a household word like "Buttafuoco"?
"Perry E. Metzger" <pmetzger@lehman.com>Sat, 4 Dec 93 08:19:27 PST
James Still says:
> In case someone isn't familiar with Mike's excellent program,
> it does for hard drives, what PGP does for messages. With
> Secure Drive (ver 1.0) you can set up a partition on your hard
> drive encrypt it (SecDrv uses the IDEA cipher for data and RSA
> for your pass phrase just like PGP) and access the encrypted
> drive from a TSR in your C drive.
>
> In my opinion, this is the best example yet since PGP of
> "cypherpunks writing code" because of the implications that
> this program has on privacy.
There is also cypherpunk Matt Blaze's "CFS" filesystem for unix
machines, which is very powerful but unfortunately unreleased to the
public, and "KFS", which is a similar file system that unfortunately
currently lacks some of the cryptographic security (and has some bad
bugs) but which will doubtless be up to speed soon.
Perry