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From: Arno Wagner <arno@wagner.name>
To: dm-crypt@saout.de
Subject: Re: [dm-crypt] LUKS disk encryption with remote boot authentication
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 22:12:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141019201230.GA2584@tansi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <544413AC.5040803@ramses-pyramidenbau.de>

On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 21:40:28 CEST, Ralf Ramsauer wrote:
> On 10/19/14 22:13, Cpp wrote:
> > This circuitry will
> > be reponsible for physical protection i.e. safe keeping the encryption
> > key and destroy it in case an attacker tries to access it.
> > Use some epoxy to prevent easy access to RAM
> > chips... cold boot anyone?
> Erm, just my two cents, but do you *really* think that this is a threat
> to you?
> In my opinion, costs and benefits should maintain balance...
> 
> And I am quite sure that your self-made tamper safe solution will
> probably fail, if someone is really willing to break into your system.

Actually, it has a pretty good chance of working well. Once.
And if it is not too obvious and nowhere documented that the
attacker can get at beforehand.

Arno
 
> So I think ssh'ing to your system and entering the passphrase manually
> remains the best solution.
> 
> Cheers
>   Ralf
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-19 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-14 11:42 [dm-crypt] LUKS disk encryption with remote boot authentication Cpp
2014-10-14 12:42 ` Ralf Ramsauer
2014-10-14 13:12 ` Arno Wagner
2014-10-14 21:16 ` Jonas Meurer
2014-10-14 21:51   ` Arno Wagner
2014-10-15  6:49     ` Cpp
2014-10-15 11:37       ` Sam Rakowski
2014-10-17 23:47       ` Alex Elsayed
2014-10-17 23:51         ` Alex Elsayed
2014-10-18  3:37         ` Arno Wagner
2014-10-19 19:13           ` Cpp
2014-10-19 19:40             ` Ralf Ramsauer
2014-10-19 20:12               ` Arno Wagner [this message]
2014-10-19 20:59                 ` Cpp
2014-10-19 22:10                   ` Arno Wagner
2014-10-20 10:09                     ` Sven Eschenberg
2014-10-20 13:36                       ` Arno Wagner
2014-10-21  4:37           ` Alex Elsayed
2014-10-21 10:01             ` Sven Eschenberg
2014-10-21 13:46               ` Arno Wagner
2014-10-21 14:50                 ` Sven Eschenberg
2014-10-21 16:18                   ` Arno Wagner
2014-10-21 13:42             ` Arno Wagner

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