Re: Studying mcrypt

From: Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:19:58 +0000
Subject: Re: Studying mcrypt
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Alex Nikitin wrote: [snip]
What makes your local system any less vulnerable of a point than your server, of anything, its more vulnerable and failure-prone, so unless i'm not getting something, that seems like a poor design decision (i'm sorry) [snip]
In the model I profiled, it is a system design that * requires * the ability to retrieve secured data. For my solution, they would have to have physical entry into the premises that hold the key/s (local encryption done offline). Donovan -- D Brooke

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