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, [...]
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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 [...]
Disk Encryption on Linux
I finally encrypted some partitions of my hard drive.
An external hard drive that I just bought (320 Gb) that allowed me to back up my entire /home partition and consider encrypting it.
