[Nottingham] Can't remember the term for a cryptographic technique...

[Andy Smith]

Hi,

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:29:46AM +0100, Martin wrote:
> For the encrypted filesystems, note that:
> 
> They only offer 'protection' against unwanted access in the event of
> physical theft of the storage device;
> 
> NO additional protection is offered for any online attacks (or of
> physical theft whilst the system is up and active);

Also if an attacker has physical access to your running machine,
they can switch it off and read the encryption keys from its RAM.

Cheers,
Andy

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