Re: NFS4 authentification / fsuid

Satyam Sharma
2007-09-20T07:12:37Z

Hi Valdis,

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 01:16:28 EDT, Kyle Moffett said:
>
> > I am assuming that if the laptop has sufficiently important data on
> > it to warrant the above steps then I am also clueful enough to:
> > (A) Not carry the laptop around unsecured areas,
> > (B) Keep a close enough eye on it and be aware that it's gone by
> > the time they get to step 2, OR
> > (C) Pay somebody to build me a better physical chassis for my laptop
>
> Building a better chassis can be a challenge when the threat model really
> *does* include attacks by a well-funded TLA.
>
> http://www.epic.org/crypto/scarfo/murch_aff.pdf

Thanks for the link! And this was ... 1999 (!) Probably goes without
saying that physical hacking tricks have only become even more refined/
perfected by now :-)

> The FBI did an *initial* entry to survey the hardware, and then a total of
> *five* other entries before they actually installed it. Note the technical
> and legal requirements required on the KLS (it had to, among other things,
> capture PGP passphrases but *not* anything that was typed online).

Thanks,

Satyam