On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 11:10:40PM +, Rick van Rein wrote:
This is not =entirely= true. A key stored in the same (non-swappable)
location for a long time will burn into the memory. (I know that I am
reacting beside the point of your story, to which I agree.)
Pimpin' Peters Papers:
John wrote:
Once something is gone from RAM, it's really, really gone. The circuit
structure and the laws of thermodynamics ensure it. No power on earth
can do anything about that.
This is not =entirely= true. A key stored in the same (non-swappable)
location for a long time will burn into
On 12/22/2006 01:57 PM, Alex Alten wrote:
I'm curious as to why the cops didn't just pull the plugs right away.
Because that would be a Bad Idea. In a halfway-well-designed
system, cutting the power would just do the secret-keepers' job
for them.
It would probably
take a while (minutes,
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 10:57:17AM -0800, Alex Alten wrote:
I'm curious as to why the cops didn't just pull the plugs right away. It
would probably
take a while (minutes, hours?) to encrypt any significant amount of
data.
At the risk of stating the obvious, this is almost certainly
Jim Gellman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well this just sucks if you ask me.
According to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which confirmed that
Kostap had activated the encryption after being arrested, it would
have taken 400 computers twelve years to crack the code.
Scales linearly, right?
I'm curious as to why the cops didn't just pull the plugs right away. It
would probably
take a while (minutes, hours?) to encrypt any significant amount of
data. Not to
mention, where is the master key? The guy couldn't have jumped up and typed
in a pass phrase to generate it in handcuffs?
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/misc/print/0%2C100169%2C39285188-39001093c%2C00.htm
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Well this just sucks if you ask me.
According to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which confirmed that
Kostap had activated the encryption after being arrested, it would
have taken 400 computers twelve years to crack the code.
Scales linearly, right? 4,800 computers'll get it in a year?
