Re: Putty Proxy login/password discolsure....

[endrazine <endrazine () gmail com>]

Paul Schmehl a écrit :
> Not even that is true.  You can always *access* the data.  Depending 
> upon the type and complexity of the encryption, it may take a while to 
> decrypt, but once I have physical access, I have both the data and the 
> time to do just that.  *Most* of the "encryption" schemes for things 
> like passwords that 
several times the age of the universe is a while thoo.
> used to be stored in plain text (until somebody pointed it out) are 
> fairly trivial and easily broken.
>
> Even if they're not, I may be able to use the program itself to 
> decrypt the password and then capture it in plain text in memory.
you know you can use pretty strong encryption on Hd, right ?
> Again, once you have physical access, it's game over, plain and simple.
>
> Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)

Regards,

endrazine-

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