-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ***^\ ."_)~~ ~( __ _"o Was another beautiful day, Mon, 18 Oct 2004, @ @ at 13:07:59 +0200, when Peter Palmreuther wrote:
[...] > All in all this would be a quite complex thing and I don't think > somebody already managed this for Windows. Ah, I see... OK then, what remains is to "relocate" then the "critical" programs and "sensitive" files to an encrypted partition/container, and that should have the job done pretty well. So, that supposed "advantage" of PGP Disk over Scramdisk is dismissed. MM>> But there is still an other advantage of PGP over Scramdisk (which can MM>> be used without any installation, and from a floppy), and this is, if I MM>> understood well, that your files in a mounted container are all in a MM>> non-readable form, except the ones you have active/open in the given MM>> moment, when you work with them. > Well ... define "have open". Having a file open requires to open it > first. This "open" would fail if the file(s) were non-readable. So > it/they must be readable, else you wouldn't be able to open it > yourself. This what I wrote above is based on characteristics described in PGP User Guide: "Even a mounted volume is protected: unless a file or application is in use, it is stored in encrypted format." This defined by "in use" I worded by "have open". For the term "encrypted format", I have used "non-readable form". (Not sure about correctness of my term for the latter one, that is if is possible that something "encrypted" might be "readable".) If this is true, it would give a certain advantage when we use programs/files in a mounted container while we are eg. 'on line', and *if* a possible trojan beasts are active, so that if any data from the container is stolen, it will be in "encrypted format"; except the one we have "in use" in this moment, and *if* the wise-guy/girl targeted right this one, eg. some message we read (therefore being "in use") in TB right in this moment. - -- Mica PGP key uploaded at: <http://pgp.mit.edu/> once just before breakfast [Earth LOG: 47 day(s) since v3.0 unleashing] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFBc9TE9q62QPd3XuIRAgfWAKCK6NelYE49+EVmGTeQMuMxN02gfwCfTVKo E/2XyU6uk+qOv7nZ0rX8dKk= =Q9wv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.0.1.33 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
