Since the new cold boot attack hack is on the news, touching most of the software encryption solutions, I have wondered if it had any chance to concern also hardware encryption. Hardware encryption is provided by a few laptop makers, generally on high-range an business models. It has much less performance impact than software encryption, [...]
Archive of entries posted on February 2008
Disk encryption methods : hacked !
Damned ! A team of researchers found a way to defeat all the most common disk encryption methods – including dm-crypt for Linux that I previously described on this blog. All systems are actually concerned, because the attack is low level. It is based on the RAM chips properties. After shutdown, and therefore no more [...]
My new toy : Thinkpad T61
As a replacement of my old but reliable Vaio, I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T61. About laptop PC, I have always been conveiced that the best pieces of hardware are found among Sony and Lenovo (ex-IBM). In tough or ultra-light categories, I would add Panasonic, but it is not the kind of laptop I am [...]
Totem : black screen issue affecting all your XVideo output
I confirm the black screen issue with Totem. Actually it changes the contrast for all the environment, and of course using Mplayer or the gstreamer test program just after also gave back a black screen. Therefore I had been convinced it was a driver issue (reporting a bug to Nvidia and posting on this forum), [...]
