[76357] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: It's a Presidential Mandate, Feds use it. How come you are not using FDE?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saqib Ali)
Tue Jan 16 11:53:37 2007
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
X-Original-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:29:07 -0800
From: "Saqib Ali" <docbook.xml@gmail.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: "Steve Schear" <s.schear@comcast.net>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20070116160815.54EF676603F@berkshire.machshav.com>
> Legal access is a special case -- what is the law (and practice) in any
> given country on forced access to keys? If memory serves, Mike Godwin
Yup. Disk Crypto has a ugly side as well, as highlighted by the recent
incident where FBI was unable to crack the encryption used by a
pedophile and murderer. There was a long discussion on this topic on
the Security-Basics mailing list:
http://www.xml-dev.com/lurker/thread/20061020.173753.ee4c6a0c.en.html#20061020.173753.ee4c6a0c
saqib
http://www.full-disk-encryption.net
---------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cryptography Mailing List
Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to majordomo@metzdowd.com
