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:
http
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 in
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 certai
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,
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? Eve
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,
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?
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/misc/print/0%2C100169%2C39285188-39001093c%2C00.htm
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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