its not an attack specifically on file encryption, but on the contents of your memory. Its a hardware attack, not a software attack.
In OpenBSD, memory locations of passwords and other such keys are zeroed when they are no longer needed. Of course, physical security is always a good idea. For a long time, we've had the assumption of "someone with physical access to the machine can do anything with it". On 2008 Feb 22 (Fri) at 08:23:51 -0800 (-0800), Danny G wrote: :Hi. : :I was wondering if OpenBSD has a file encryption capability and if so, :is it venerable to the attack described here: : :http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/ : :Thanks : :Danny : -- Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
