From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 17 15:19:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94FF2106566C for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:19:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout027.mac.com (asmtpout027.mac.com [17.148.16.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FEEF8FC08 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:19:21 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from [17.151.83.174] by asmtp027.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0L1100G2517D1820@asmtp027.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:18:55 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1004170136 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <1271494165.4881.28.camel@localhost> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:18:49 -0700 Message-id: References: <1271494165.4881.28.camel@localhost> To: Jozsi Vadkan X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing list Subject: Re: crypt question/server hotel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:19:21 -0000 On Apr 17, 2010, at 1:49 AM, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > I want to put my server in a "server hotel". > > But: I don't trust my "server hotel owner". > > What can I do? Find a different hotel owner. There is no good protection against someone with physical access to the machine. Even using disk encryption and a human-entered password depends on you trusting the physical machine to not be bugged with a keystroke logger in the keyboard, BIOS, etc. Regards, -- -Chuck