Re: Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds

2008-02-22 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Ted Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:48 -0700, Stephen P Rufle wrote: http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9876060-38.html?tag=nefd.lede In Linux would an effective counter to this type of attack be scrabbled the RAM on shutdown? I

Re: Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds

2008-02-22 Thread Erich Newell
Essentially, if you are more concerned with someone who steals your laptop having a can of CO2 in hand and a similar laptop with VERY specialized tools installed on it nearby...Well, I think you have much bigger problems at that point than worrying if the NSA sees that you do indeed enjoy the

Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds

2008-02-21 Thread Stephen P Rufle
http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9876060-38.html?tag=nefd.lede In Linux would an effective counter to this type of attack be scrabbled the RAM on shutdown? I also am not sure if the people that steal laptops would have the skills to do what the researchers are doing.

Re: Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds

2008-02-21 Thread Ben
You can encryot your swap rather painlessly, but can you encrypt data going through / stored in RAM from the kernel level (not just on the application side)? Can't imagine it could help performance much if you could. I guess you don't want to put it on a networked or portable computer - or

Re: Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds

2008-02-21 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Stephen P Rufle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9876060-38.html?tag=nefd.lede Jacob Appelbaum is one of the founding members of our hacking group... https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php/People -- Kristian Erik Hermansen -- It has been

Re: Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds

2008-02-21 Thread Joshua Zeidner
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Stephen P Rufle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9876060-38.html?tag=nefd.lede Jacob Appelbaum is one of the founding members of our hacking group...

Re: Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds

2008-02-21 Thread Ted Gould
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:48 -0700, Stephen P Rufle wrote: http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9876060-38.html?tag=nefd.lede In Linux would an effective counter to this type of attack be scrabbled the RAM on shutdown? I also am not sure if the people that steal laptops would have the skills to