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Second, the key derivation scheme it uses makes every passphrase, no matter how carefully chosen, drastically weaker.

I'd just like to repeat this point because it's so important. The password verification method in JungleDisk is fundamentally broken and needs to be rearchitected immediately.

For non-cryptography people, this is similar to the vulnerability that allowed passwords to be retrieved from the Gawker database hack a couple months ago (just not quite as vulnerable).




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