I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my laptop,
in case it gets stolen.
I have a general comment, and a specific software suggestion:
General comment:
Whatever encryption solution you use, think seriously about backups!
That is, if your data is important enough to
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:14:59AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote:
Hi
I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my laptop,
in case it gets stolen.
I have no prior experience in this field.
I have been thinking about using mcrypt with blowfish, but is this a
good way to go
Joachim Schipper wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:14:59AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote:
Hi
I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my laptop,
in case it gets stolen.
I have no prior experience in this field.
I have been thinking about using mcrypt with blowfish, but is this
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 12:00:34PM +0200, Sigfred H?versen wrote:
Joachim Schipper wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:14:59AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote:
Hi
I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my laptop,
in case it gets stolen.
I have no prior experience in this
Bear in mind that if you're serious about keeping plaintext away from
people who you don't want to see it, this could get quite tricky.
What happens if an application generates temporary files? What happens
if an application swaps? What happens if an application crashes and
dumps core? What
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:57:42AM -0600, Chris Kuethe wrote:
Bear in mind that if you're serious about keeping plaintext away from
people who you don't want to see it, this could get quite tricky.
What happens if an application generates temporary files? What happens
if an application
On 7/2/06, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bear in mind that if you're serious about keeping plaintext away from
people who you don't want to see it, this could get quite tricky.
And that's not even taking into account that the thief might just put
trojan horses all over your laptop
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:56:03PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote:
I have some questions though:
How can you make a keylogger on UNIX? I thought that UNIX segmented
it's memory spaces, unlike Windows which has the problem of a global
key trampoline (I'm sorry, I read this somewhere once and do not
On 7/2/06, Peter Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:56:03PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote:
I have some questions though:
How can you make a keylogger on UNIX? I thought that UNIX segmented
it's memory spaces, unlike Windows which has the problem of a global
key
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:56:03PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote:
On 7/2/06, Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bear in mind that if you're serious about keeping plaintext away from
people who you don't want to see it, this could get quite tricky.
And that's not even taking into account
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 09:34:50PM +0200, Peter Philipp wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:56:03PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote:
I have some questions though:
How can you make a keylogger on UNIX? I thought that UNIX segmented
it's memory spaces, unlike Windows which has the problem of a
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 03:59:41PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote:
On 7/2/06, Peter Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:56:03PM -0400, Nick Guenther wrote:
How can you make a keylogger on UNIX?
I think this was meant. (...)
Ah, okay, thank you! I see a lot go across on
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 10:25:35PM +0200, Joachim Schipper wrote:
Well, provided the BIOS (or equivalent) cannot be flashed from the
kernel, yes.
Of course, worrying about this requires raging paranoia. But from a
Paranoia isn't necessarily a bad thing. It motivates people to seek true or
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 10:57:42 -0600
Chris Kuethe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bear in mind that if you're serious about keeping plaintext away from
people who you don't want to see it, this could get quite tricky.
After a bout of homocidal paranoia and time spent wondering just what
to do with
Hi
I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my laptop, in case
it gets stolen.
I have no prior experience in this field.
I have been thinking about using mcrypt with blowfish, but is this a good way
to go about? Are there a better alternative? And is blowfish the best way
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:14:59AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote:
Hi
I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my laptop, in
case it gets stolen.
I have no prior experience in this field.
I have been thinking about using mcrypt with blowfish, but is this a good
way to go
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 02:14:59 +0200
Rico Secada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my
laptop, in case it gets stolen.
tedu just improved svnd's crypto... add -K option which uses a salt
file and pkcs5 pbkdf2 to create a more secure key...
On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:14:59AM +0200, Rico Secada wrote:
| Hi
|
| I have been thinking about encrypting some private files on my
| laptop, in case it gets stolen.
If someone can steal your laptop, can they also take it for a short
while, fiddle with it (eg install a malicious kernel) and
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