Re: [PEN-TEST] Password Protection

[White Vampire <whitevampire () mindless com>]

On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:00:28AM -0700, Jensen, Greg(Greg_Jensen () NAI com) wrote:
> Correct, however, we are talking about a means of securing the CD in case it
> falls into the wrong hands, not to secure if somebody is using it and
> reading it.  If that was the requirement, I would absolutely agree that the
> end users need to have PGP installed on thier box so this could be done with
> memory protection enabled too.

        That is true.  I suppose I had a completely different line of
thought.  I was thinking of an all-around security solution keeping the
data on the CD.  I suppose that is just a tad anal.  <G>  But then
again, when security is concerned, I try to make as few compromises as
possible.

> In this case, the alternative was password protected zip files and pdf's.
> Seemed like the obvious solution.

        An ideal solution in my eyes would be something cross-platform
where the data remained on the CD with a high-quality form of
encryption.  This would be used for data that could not have integrity
compromised whatsoever.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: White Vampire [mailto:whitevampire () mindless com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 11:29 AM
> To: PEN-TEST () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: Re: [PEN-TEST] Password Protection
>
>       It was my understanding that SDAs would decrypt the data onto an
> available disk.  However, if 'TEMPEST protection' was enabled it would
> not.

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