Then you add Sony itself to the equation...They have a long history of developing proprietary standards, which are arguably superior, but end up being so expensive for the consumer that they die (the standard, not the consumer:) )
Yeah. I wonder what happened to that so-called "Compact Disc" standard they developed with Philips? Sounded like a good idea at the time.
No, you got that wrong. GBDE can also encrypt a partition. This means you create one partition when installing your system that you will encrypt, where you keep your private files. This makes it a lot easier to use than any application level interface (be it PGP/GPG/whatever). This is also explained in the paper, but I guess you didn't read that before commenting.
I suggest you actually read the paper and you'll see that this is not exactly the same. GBDE has far more security levels, is easier to setup and use and can be considered safer too. Again, read the paper to see what I'm talking about.
One of the cooler features that come with GBDE is the fact that you can encrypt CD-ROM images. This makes for a very secure way of getting someone a lot of sensitive data.
A patch was recently posted on the current@ mailing list to allow this.
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Then you add Sony itself to the equation...They have a long history of developing proprietary standards, which are arguably superior, but end up being so expensive for the consumer that they die (the standard, not the consumer :) )
Yeah. I wonder what happened to that so-called "Compact Disc" standard they developed with Philips? Sounded like a good idea at the time.
Yeah, and everyone knows there are _never_ security flaws in web browsers.
It has windows, but they're called 'X-Windows'. Also, you can't open or close them without using a window widget library.
No. MacOS X can be perfectly identified by Netcraft, and for that matter, it's not even based on FreeBSD (only userland programs come from FreeBSD).
No, you got that wrong. GBDE can also encrypt a partition. This means you create one partition when installing your system that you will encrypt, where you keep your private files. This makes it a lot easier to use than any application level interface (be it PGP/GPG/whatever). This is also explained in the paper, but I guess you didn't read that before commenting.
I suggest you actually read the paper and you'll see that this is not exactly the same. GBDE has far more security levels, is easier to setup and use and can be considered safer too. Again, read the paper to see what I'm talking about.
One of the cooler features that come with GBDE is the fact that you can encrypt CD-ROM images. This makes for a very secure way of getting someone a lot of sensitive data. A patch was recently posted on the current@ mailing list to allow this.