Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Ted Gould <ted at gould.cx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:48 -0700, Stephen P Rufle wrote:
>  > http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9876060-38.html?tag=nefd.lede
>  >
>  > In Linux would an effective counter to this type of attack be scrabbled
>  > the RAM on shutdown? I also am not sure if the people that steal laptops
>  > would have the skills to do what the researchers are doing.
>
>  No, because when shutting down there is no issue.  The concern here is
>  suspend and hibernate.  If you are very worried about security,
>  hibernate is probably not a great idea.  Suspend, unless you're keeping
>  something from the NSA I wouldn't worry too much.  It's kinda like GPG
>  keys over a couple thousand bits today, sure the NSA can probably crack
>  them if they wanted, but are YOU important enough to fill out all that
>  paperwork?
>

  looks like you're trying to prompt another telecom immunity discussion... :)

 - http://www.joshuazeidner.com/