Security of Mac Keychain, File Vault

2009-10-25 Thread Jerry Leichter
The article at http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1322 claims that both are easily broken. I haven't been able to find any public analyses of Keychain, even though the software is open-source so it's relatively easy to check. I ran across an analysis of File Vault not long ago

Re: Possibly questionable security decisions in DNS root management

2009-10-25 Thread Bill Stewart
At 12:14 PM 10/22/2009, David Wagner wrote: Back to DNSSEC: The original criticism was that DNSSEC has covert channels. So what? If you're connected to the Internet, covert channels are a fact of life, DNSSEC or no. The added risk due to any covert channels that DNSSEC may enable is somewhere