I like the stolen phone sms message. On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Ilja O. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Christoph Fink > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ilja O. wrote: > >> > >> 1) Auth using PIN number (this requires encrypted image presence in > >> phone file system by it's boot time end -- not reallyl convenient if > >> SD card is used). > >> > > > > IMO encrypting Data with the PIN Number is not such a good thing, because > > the possibilities of different keys are definately not high (max 8 > digits, > > only numbers). A better solution would be to save the PIN on the > encrypted > > storage and automatically read it. > >> > > I don't see point in making secure protection from somebody that has > stolen phone to obtain your data, since anything that phones' CPU will > be able to encrypt/decrypt without draining battery much faster than > it should be. I'm telling about making protection from phone thief, > that simply has stolen your phone and is now trying to power it up and > obtain any easily accessible plain data. And for this aim almost any > encryption will do. > > To protect yourself from data thiefs the best way, imho, would be to > program a daemon that wipes out all phone memory when phone receives > an SMS message with predefined contents. > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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