Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:03:32 +0100 From: Achim Patzner <ap@bnc.net> To: "David E. Thiel" <lx@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security Flaw in Popular Disk Encryption Technologies Message-ID: <31648FC5-26B9-4359-ACC8-412504D3257B@bnc.net> In-Reply-To: <20080223222733.GI12067@redundancy.redundancy.org> References: <20080223010856.7244.qmail@smasher.org> <20080223222733.GI12067@redundancy.redundancy.org>
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--Apple-Mail-3-14831615 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >> article below. does anyone know how this affects eli/geli? > > There's fairly little any disk crypto system can do to thoroughly > defend > against this. Hm. Strange. Serious hardware is very well suited to do that (usually by adding well defended crypto hardware). Keys don't have to be stored in unsafe places. Achim Patzner --Apple-Mail-3-14831615--
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