Re: encrypting the whole disk / all the data

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On Saturday 06 October 2001 13:19, Jonas Larsson wrote:
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> But in todays cryptos as far as I know (I may be wrong here) the more
> data you have doesn't make it easier to decrypt the content.
<snip>

You are (sorry :-).
Please look up "known-plaintext-attack" in your favorite Cryptography 
handbook.
And look at the attacks presented against the AES candidates (all papers 
available from somewhere on www.nist.gov/aes): There surely are KPA's 
among them.

Marc

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