[107204] in Cypherpunks
Re: Bernie Baby
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Motyka)
Tue Jan 5 16:45:09 1999
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 13:18:22 -0800
From: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
> The question of "How much data can be retrieved from a disk drive"
> comes up fairly often, because cypherpunks worry about the
> NSA/KGB/LCN trying to recover data from a confiscated/stolen disk
> drive, and what you need to do to prevent it.
>
confiscated == stolen
This was a good read:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/secure_del.html
Here goes the broken record: need an embedded system between the
motherboard and the disk drive(s) so that keys are never seen by Intel
HW or closed-source SW and plaintext is never written on the HDD. This
would at least confine the issue of storage security to the embedded
system instead of leaving it spread across multiple devices and SW.
Mike
