Re: English 19-year-old jailed for refusal to disclose decryption key

2010-10-08 Thread Jerry Leichter
On Oct 7, 2010, at 1:10 PM, Bernie Cosell wrote: a 19-year-old just got a 16-month jail sentence for his refusal to disclose the password that would have allowed investigators to see what was on his hard drive. What about http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability Could this be

Re: Computer health certificate plan: Charney of DoJ/MS

2010-10-08 Thread Peter Gutmann
Before people get too far into conspiracy theories with this, I should point out that health certificates have been part of corporate Windows environments for years (I don't know how many exactly, I think it's been since at least Server 2003). The intent of health certs is that it allows the IT

Re: English 19-year-old jailed for refusal to disclose decryption key

2010-10-08 Thread Samuel Weiler
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010, Nicolas Williams wrote: If decryption results in plaintext much shorter than the ciphertext -much shorter than can be explained by the presence of a MAC- then it'd be fair to assume that you're pulling this trick. Not to argue with your overall point re: crypto not

Re: Photos of an FBI tracking device found by a suspect

2010-10-08 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Oct 8, 2010, at 11:21 16AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: My question: if someone plants something in your car, isn't it your property afterwards? http://gawker.com/5658671/dont-post-pictures-of-an-fbi-tracking-device-you-find-on-a-car-to-the-internet See

Re: Photos of an FBI tracking device found by a suspect

2010-10-08 Thread Alec Muffett
Original post with nicer pics: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/dmh5s/does_this_mean_the_fbi_is_after_us/ Semi-relevant government pricelist: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=st820ec+site:.gov -a -- alec.muff...@gmail.com

Disk encryption advice...

2010-10-08 Thread Perry E. Metzger
I have a client with the following problem. They would like to encrypt all of their Windows workstation drives, but if they do that, the machines require manual intervention to enter a key on every reboot. Why is this a problem? Because installations and upgrades of many kinds of Windows software

Re: Photos of an FBI tracking device found by a suspect

2010-10-08 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 11:21:16AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: My question: if someone plants something in your car, isn't it your property afterwards? If you left a wallet in someone's car, isn't it still yours? And isn't that so even if you left it there on purpose (e.g., to test a

Re: Photos of an FBI tracking device found by a suspect

2010-10-08 Thread Perry E. Metzger
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 16:13:13 -0500 Nicolas Williams nicolas.willi...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 11:21:16AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: My question: if someone plants something in your car, isn't it your property afterwards? If you left a wallet in someone's car, isn't it

Re: Photos of an FBI tracking device found by a suspect

2010-10-08 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 05:45:16PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 16:13:13 -0500 Nicolas Williams nicolas.willi...@oracle.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 11:21:16AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: My question: if someone plants something in your car, isn't it your

Re: Disk encryption advice...

2010-10-08 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:27:57PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: I have a client with the following problem. They would like to encrypt all of their Windows workstation drives, but if they do that, the machines require manual intervention to enter a key on every reboot. Why is this a

RE: Disk encryption advice...

2010-10-08 Thread eric.lengvenis
-Original Message- From: owner-cryptogra...@metzdowd.com [mailto:owner- cryptogra...@metzdowd.com] On Behalf Of Perry E. Metzger Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 3:28 PM To: cryptography@metzdowd.com Subject: Disk encryption advice... I have a client with the following problem.

Re: Disk encryption advice...

2010-10-08 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010, Perry E. Metzger wrote: I have a client with the following problem. They would like to encrypt all of their Windows workstation drives, but if they do that, the machines require manual intervention to enter a key on every reboot. Why is this a problem? Because installations

Re: Disk encryption advice...

2010-10-08 Thread John Denker
On 10/08/2010 04:27 PM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: I have a client with the following problem. They would like to encrypt all of their Windows workstation drives, but if they do that, the machines require manual intervention to enter a key on every reboot. Why is this a problem? Because