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Tag Archives: Encryption

ESFS, new perspectives for stenography ?

Tomas Touceda advertised a new project on Full Disclosure. The idea sounds good, so I will keep an eye on this very interesting project. Though I would like to know more about the methods that were used for encryption and stenography. Code and explanations are on the ESFS project homepage. Beyond the pratical usage, I [...]

Posted 14 January 2011 § Cryptography § Defense § Security ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Cold boot attack, not a threat to Full disk encryption (FDE)

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, [...]

Posted 26 February 2008 § Cryptography § Hardware § Linux § Security ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

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 [...]

Posted 25 February 2008 § Cryptography § Linux § Security ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

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.

Posted 18 November 2007 § Cryptography § Linux § Security ‡ Comments (11) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,