Re: [eros-arch] Did you *really* zeroize that key?

2002-11-11 Thread Dave Howe
Jeroen C. van Gelderen wrote: >> The last, I think, is the right answer. On the whole, when my laptop >> is stolen I don't want anybody to get *anything* useful off of that >> drive. If they can't get anything useful, then in particular they >> cannot get my crypto keys and I'm done. > Law enforcem

Re: [eros-arch] Did you *really* zeroize that key?

2002-11-11 Thread Jonathan S. Shapiro
[Dave: since Bill forwarded his reply to eros-arch, I'm copying you and cypherpunks on the reply.] Background: Dave suggested language-level support for storage that must be zeroed when freed. Bill Frantz forwarded this to me in the context of paging-related optimizations and a possible exposure a

Re: [eros-arch] Did you *really* zeroize that key?

2002-11-11 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 07:33 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote: 4. Encrypt all *used* storage as it goes to disk, whereupon you don't need to worry about explicitly zeroing the deleted storage. This can be a problem when you are somehow forced to decrypt your storage contents to allow for