From: Richard Zidlicky <rz@linux-m68k.org>
To: Olivier Sessink <oliviersessink@gmail.com>
Cc: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] avoid keyloggers: enter password with mouse (virtual keyboard)
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:51:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100412175150.GA15644@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <t2g61722e191004120810q3b2a7a36q592cd1cf12790db@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 05:10:13PM +0200, Olivier Sessink wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> several disk encryption products feature a virtual keyboard, so users
> can use the mouse to enter the password which makes keyloggers
> useless.
it does not make keyloggers useless, only requires slightly different manipulation
to the system.
You get the best safety if you have encrypted root and swap and boot off
a CD which contains your kernel and ramdisk. There is no keylogger unless
you did burn it on the CD.
Guaranteeing the integrity of the boot media is extremely important and
afaics only physical security of the media helps here.
Richard
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-12 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-12 15:10 [dm-crypt] avoid keyloggers: enter password with mouse (virtual keyboard) Olivier Sessink
2010-04-12 17:15 ` Arno Wagner
2010-04-12 17:58 ` Heinz Diehl
2010-04-13 15:48 ` Arno Wagner
2010-04-13 19:38 ` Heinz Diehl
2010-04-13 19:55 ` Milan Broz
2010-04-14 13:11 ` Olivier Sessink
2010-04-14 15:30 ` Arno Wagner
2010-04-14 18:42 ` Olivier Sessink
2010-04-14 23:30 ` Arno Wagner
2010-04-14 23:54 ` Sven Eschenberg
2010-04-15 6:24 ` Milan Broz
2010-04-15 10:00 ` Arno Wagner
2010-04-15 7:50 ` test532
2010-04-15 10:04 ` Arno Wagner
2010-04-15 17:44 ` Richard Zidlicky
2010-04-15 18:04 ` [dm-crypt] avoid keyloggers: enter password with mouse(virtual keyboard) Vladimir Giszpenc
2011-10-04 15:02 ` [dm-crypt] avoid keyloggers: enter password with mouse (virtual keyboard) Jan
2011-10-04 18:28 ` [dm-crypt] avoid keyloggers: enter password with mouse?(virtual?keyboard) Arno Wagner
2011-10-04 21:42 ` Jan
2011-10-04 22:48 ` Arno Wagner
2011-10-05 9:37 ` Jan
2011-10-05 12:15 ` Arno Wagner
2011-10-05 18:18 ` Jan
2011-10-04 18:48 ` Heinz Diehl
2011-11-30 14:22 ` Ma Begaj
2011-11-30 14:28 ` Ma Begaj
2011-11-30 14:46 ` Arno Wagner
2011-11-30 15:11 ` Ma Begaj
2010-04-12 21:43 ` [dm-crypt] avoid keyloggers: enter password with mouse (virtual keyboard) Olivier Sessink
2010-04-12 17:51 ` Richard Zidlicky [this message]
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