bugtraq - Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage

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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 16:42:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Seth Breidbart <sethb@...ix.com>
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com, secpapers@...urityfocus.com,
   vulnwatch@...nwatch.org, vulndiscuss@...nwatch.org,
   full-disclosure@...sys.com
Subject: Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage


> Thus you could store a whopping 2 Gb of data, in a perfect network, or
> 256 MB.  My desktop at home has more DRAM, and has far better access
> behavior.  So the network layer juggling is pointless.

Nope.

> So who cares?  Why juggle when shelves hold so much more?

It keeps the encryption (decryption) key safe from someone seizing my
computer.

Seth

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