NYKrumrie
February 22nd, 2008, 09:49 PM
I’ve attached a link to a few articles that appeared on the NET today about how easy researches found it is to Breach many common Encryption programs.
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“Researchers with Princeton University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have found a flaw that renders disk encryption systems useless if an intruder has physical access to your computer”.
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“ The researchers successfully performed the attack on several disk encryption systems -- Apple's FileVault, Microsoft's BitLocker, as well as TrueCrypt and dm-crypt -- but said they have no reason to believe it won't work on other disk encryption systems as well, since they all share similar architectures”.
The second link has a video demo to show the vulnerability of most systems. I only bring this up because if I can find this info ANYONE can. Plus the articles were posted on The Drudge report today! (Only the most visited site on the NET!!).
*Does anyone have more info on this matter?
*Does anyone know a program or system to counter-act these security flaws?
I think this will become a huge story. Even one’s Laptop/or desktop is vulnerable to this!
Thanks for your help!
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/02/21-0
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/researchers-dis.html
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“Researchers with Princeton University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have found a flaw that renders disk encryption systems useless if an intruder has physical access to your computer”.
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“ The researchers successfully performed the attack on several disk encryption systems -- Apple's FileVault, Microsoft's BitLocker, as well as TrueCrypt and dm-crypt -- but said they have no reason to believe it won't work on other disk encryption systems as well, since they all share similar architectures”.
The second link has a video demo to show the vulnerability of most systems. I only bring this up because if I can find this info ANYONE can. Plus the articles were posted on The Drudge report today! (Only the most visited site on the NET!!).
*Does anyone have more info on this matter?
*Does anyone know a program or system to counter-act these security flaws?
I think this will become a huge story. Even one’s Laptop/or desktop is vulnerable to this!
Thanks for your help!
http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/02/21-0
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/02/researchers-dis.html