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.
Final upgrade of my laptop
For Christmas, I got a new hard drive for my laptop. As all accessories for laptops, it is rather expensive. But still less expensive and extravagant than buying a new computer when you don’t really need a big CPU power. My goal was not having a huge capacity, but rather speed and reliability.
Back-up your disk with DD
I had several bad experiences losing my data in my life. Sometimes because of the hardware, sometimes because of my stupidness or inexperience. At least, it learned to be careful. I backup my data regularly, and on several support concerning the important ones.
