On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:13:15 +0000, Michael Schmidt <drmike@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Is anyone able to pursue this train of thoughts any further, how these known > plaintext attacks help breaking confidentiality of the ciphertext? There may be other information besides the plain text that is of value to the attacker. For example knowing the maximum amount of encrypted data on the drive might allow them to tell whether or not some data they think you might have is stored there. --------------------------------------------------------------------- dm-crypt mailing list - http://www.saout.de/misc/dm-crypt/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: dm-crypt-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: dm-crypt-help@xxxxxxxx