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Re: fringe: Researchers: Disk Encryption Not Secure
From: "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong () pobox com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:43:25 -0500
Or, perhaps, partial keys on the hard drive and the portable device - only the two together make a whole. On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Rory Wasserman <rwasserman () mxisecurity com> wrote:
Roy, I agree with what you are saying, however if a portable hardware device is used for multifactor authentication and the key is stored in a secure place on the device, off of the hard drive, then this type of attack would be futile. Rory Wasserman
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