Timeline for How can I encrypt compressed data safely?
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:46 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://security.stackexchange.com/ with https://security.stackexchange.com/ | |
| May 25, 2014 at 10:37 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSecurity/status/470514089673117697 | ||
| May 24, 2014 at 4:44 | answer | added | Mark | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 23, 2014 at 18:07 | comment | added | Naftuli Kay | As mentioned above, the journal entry date is embedded in the file, however this shouldn't be a problem, as you mentioned as it should hopefully not be a known plaintext attack. | |
| May 23, 2014 at 18:06 | comment | added | Bruno Rohée | The date is in the file only if someone puts in it, on the file system it's metadata and not part of the file. And in any case, that would only be a known plaintext attack which doesn't seem to be an issue in what we are discussing. | |
| May 23, 2014 at 17:33 | answer | added | Bruno Rohée | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 23, 2014 at 17:22 | comment | added | Naftuli Kay | If I know that Bob wrote an entry on 2014/05/01, can't I expect that the date will be contained in the encrypted file? Does only the compressed parts of the plaintext suffer from the attack? | |
| May 23, 2014 at 17:15 | comment | added | Bruno Rohée | CRIME relies on the attacker being able to force Bob to compress then encrypt plaintext of his choosing and being able to observe the different results... I don't think it's the case in your scenario. | |
| May 23, 2014 at 16:53 | history | asked | Naftuli Kay | CC BY-SA 3.0 |