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Re: Hack PGP
From: Andreas Putzo <andreas () inferno nadir org>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 20:33:57 +0100
Hello, On Saturday 15 January 2005 07:06, Daniel Persson wrote:
I have a delema that is quite strange but then again feasable. I did a backup on my system and wiped my harddrive and then installed everything from scratch. My problem was that the PGP keys where locked down on my harddrive and couldn't be copied by the backup system.
Bad. Very bad. Keep at least one copy of your secret key on a save medium, eg. an usb-stick or a disk in your bank deposit box. Facing your problem, i would 1st try, to recover the key from your harddisk. By 'wipe' you mean a simple delete? If so, you _may have a change without paying a lot of money for a forensic professional. You may take a look at sleuthkit[1] or 'The Coroners Toolkit' to look at your HD for deleted files. If the name information for your secret_key is gone, you can possibly identify it on its size. Of course, you have to stop writing to this harddisk immediately! Take an image with 'dd' to another harddisk and work with this image further on. Good luck! Andreas [1] http://www.sleuthkit.org
Current thread:
- Hack PGP Daniel Persson (Jan 17)
- Re: Hack PGP James Eaton-Lee (Jan 18)
- Re: Hack PGP Andreas Putzo (Jan 18)
- Re: Hack PGP Daniel Persson (Jan 18)
- Re: Hack PGP Keith Morgan (Jan 19)
- Re: Hack PGP Daniel Persson (Jan 18)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Hack PGP Saint Anthony (Jan 19)
- RE: Hack PGP Conlan Adams (Jan 19)
- Hack PGP Valentin Höbel (Jan 19)
- Re: Hack PGP Nazareno Vicente Feito (Jan 19)
- RE: Hack PGP Pablo Hauser (Jan 20)
- Re: Hack PGP Dan Margolis (Jan 20)
- Re: Hack PGP David J. Bianco (Jan 24)
- Hack PGP Valentin Höbel (Jan 19)
- Re: Hack PGP Christopher Anders (Jan 19)