[144061] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: full-disk subversion standards released
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Fri Feb 13 16:48:57 2009
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:37:04 +0000
From: Ben Laurie <ben@links.org>
To: Alexander Klimov <alserkli@inbox.ru>
CC: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <TheMailAgent.be51ac863d1efc@10741aa1529d9134f27d4>
Alexander Klimov wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Ben Laurie wrote:
>> If I have data on my server that I would like to stay on my server
>> and not get leaked to some third party, then this is exactly the
>> same situation as DRMed content on an end user's machine, is it not?
>
> The treat model is completely different: for DRM the attacker is the
> user who supposedly has complete access to computer, while for server
> the attacker is someone who has only (limited) network connection to
> your server.
You wish. The threat is an attacker who has root on your machine.
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