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Tag Archives: Vulnerability

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: , , , , ,

md5 hash googling – and WordPress password weakness

Some Md5 password implementation – without a salt, become more insecure than ever. There is an issue right now with WordPress, I hope they will fix it soon ! Check this interesting article. No need to take out your rainbow tables anymore, just google your hash ! I hope your password is strong enough… You [...]

Posted 26 November 2007 § Cryptography § Security ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,