[Liverpool] Next meeting

[Sebastian Arcus]

On 22/08/13 07:45, Antony Bailey wrote:
>
> On 22 Aug 2013 01:05, "Sebastian Arcus" <shop at open-t.co.uk
> <mailto:shop at open-t.co.uk>> wrote:
>  >
>  > On 21/08/13 19:18, Antony Bailey wrote:
>  >>
>  >> Sounds good.
>  >>
>  >> I'm thinking that I will talk about public / private key cryptography
>  >> which covers PGP, DRM and Bitcoin.
>  >>
>  >> I'll do disc encryption. So true crypt vs others.
>  >>
>  >> I'll do point to point encrypted phone calls along with examples for
>  >> modern phones both mobile and land line. Including PBX for home.
>  >>
>  >> Obviously all the encryption you use is just as strong as your will to
>  >> keep your data secure. I won't link to the xkcd, but I'm sure you know
>  >> the example. So I'll do plausible deniability along with clandestine
>  >> intrusion by shall we say nation states.
>  >>
>  >> Data destruction also. This talk is also known as Guttman thinks 35
>  >> passes is just going to kill a drive too. If I had the cash to hand I'd
>  >> get some drives of eBay and show you how to see strangers' holiday
> snaps.
>  >>
>  >
>  > I can provide few spare 3.5" drives - but I'm curious if there will
> be anything to find on them after they've been through DBAN?
>  >
>  > Depends how it was run. Number of passes and entropy. I'll give them
> a go if you like.

That would be really interesting. One reads about the need to run DBAN 
several times - but I often wondered how much of a difference does it 
make in real life (if an attacker doesn't have access to fancy magnetic 
field/tunnel type tools, that is).