Re: Distinguishability of encrypted partition

[Christian Kujau <evil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006, Florian Reitmeir wrote:
> "The" evils have much simpler ways to "crack" your security, a common
> way (rumors) is, that
>
> - "they" grab all your computer staff
> - see its encrypted

s/see/assume/  ...as they can't be sure and probably won't hire a 
cryptoexpert to prove this, methinks.

> - return the computer
> - ... with an keylogger, small on the mainboard/keyboard/usb-bus/...
> - then, come about 2 weeks/months later again

there we go again: triple-aes-1024 won't help if the cryptosystem is lame.

What I'm still courious about is: are "they" allowed to tamper with a 
"disk with random-looking data"? because, if she says: "No, it's just 
random data, dunno what crypto is" then "they" could say: "if it's only 
random, you won't object if we wipe your disk, right?".
But these are legal questions, i guess...

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