Simone 'Wiz' Tellini - Entries tagged as research

Friday, February 22. 2008

Is your data secure?

Users with sensitive data might find it comforting to use disk encryption in order to prevent it to fall in the wrong hands, especially when this data is stored on a laptop.

Hovewer, a new research shows that it might be relatively simple to recover the encryption keys for at least three popular products (BitLocker, from Windows Vista; FileVault, from Mac OS X; dm-crypt for Linux), thus defeating this kind of protection.

Be warned.

Posted by Simone in IT & Technology at 17:39 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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Defined tags for this entry: bitlocker, encryption, filevault, it & technology, mac os x, research, security, vista

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About me

Born in Guastalla the 14th of February, 1978; since I was a child I've always enjoyed disassembling (and re-assembling, often succesfully) everything I could put my hands on.

Eventually I ended up disassembling and re-assembling software... it's not exactly the same thing as dismantling toys, but it can be equally funny

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