From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 26 11:56:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C75291066379 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:56:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ap@bnc.net) Received: from mailomat.net (mailomat.net [217.110.117.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75EE313C746 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:51:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ap@bnc.net) X-Mailomat-SpamCatcher-Score: 2 [X] X-Mailomat-Cloudmark-Score: 0.000000 [] Received: from [194.39.192.125] (account bnc-mail@mailrelay.mailomat.net HELO bnc.net) by mailomat.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.0) with ESMTPSA id 40116939; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:51:46 +0100 X-SpamCatcher-Score: 2 [X] Received: from [194.39.194.142] (account ap HELO wasabi.wlan.bnc.net) by bnc.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.0) with ESMTPSA id 3078549; Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:51:39 +0100 Message-Id: From: Achim Patzner To: Uwe Doering In-Reply-To: <47C3FBE8.8010201@geminix.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-56-233715870; micalg=sha1; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:51:38 +0100 References: <20080223010856.7244.qmail@smasher.org> <20080223222733.GI12067@redundancy.redundancy.org> <31648FC5-26B9-4359-ACC8-412504D3257B@bnc.net> <47C345C9.8010901@geminix.org> <9111966B-DB9C-41E3-9D30-168D668585A9@bnc.net> <47C3FBE8.8010201@geminix.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Security Flaw in Popular Disk Encryption Technologies X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:56:40 -0000 --Apple-Mail-56-233715870 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Am 26.02.2008 um 12:45 schrieb Uwe Doering: >> You might want to take a look at eNova (http://www.enovatech.net/) >> who are pointing at interesting hardware using their crypto >> technology. > > Interesting approach as well. Thanks for the pointer. However, > given that notebooks are the most vulnerable group of computers in > this regard, the drawback I see is that the notebook manufacturers > first have to adopt this solution, since you normally cannot put > such additional hardware into a notebook yourself. I put a few of these into MSI S262 systems. But I really love my Dremel... You might consider buying barebone systems which provide an USB connector you can remove in some way. Achim Patzner --Apple-Mail-56-233715870--