From a Computerworld blog.
--Jerry
When encryption doesn't work
By Robert L. Mitchell on Wed, 07/26/2006 - 12:00pm
In my interview with Ontrack Data Recovery this week (see
Recovery specialists bring data back from the dead:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:16:23 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Encrption can be broken
I was surprised to learn that Ontrack regularly recovers encrypted data
on systems where the user has lost the key. There's only a couple of
technologies where we would run into a roadblock [such as] some of
* Steven M. Bellovin:
I wonder how accurate this is. It's certainly true that some drives have
vendor passwords to unlock them. It's hard to see how they could break
through (good) software encryption,
A lot of software tends to create temporary files in random places.
If you don't encrypt
