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Re: the return of key escrow?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Olesch)
Thu Feb 16 09:56:44 2006
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:21:45 -0600
From: Chris Olesch <g13005@gmail.com>
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Ok the lurker posts...
Can someone explain to me why security specialists think this:
"The system uses BitLocker Drive Encryption through a chip called TPM
(Trusted Platform Module) in the computer's motherboard."
is going to stop authorities from retreiving data?
I ask this question on the basis of their encrypted hard drive on the old
xbox. It supposedly used a secure key so the hard drive couldn't be
upgraded, yet this fact didn't slow down the modd scene. Its not as if they
are hardware encrypting tightly is it?
Just curious I guess.
-Chris
On 15/02/06, Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
> According to the BBC, the British government is talking to Microsoft
> about putting in a back door for the file encryption mechanisms.
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm
>
>
>
> --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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miss."
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wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."
"He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yarding his way
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Ok the lurker posts...<br><br>Can someone explain to me why security specia=
lists think this:<br><br>"<font size=3D"2">The system uses BitLocker D=
rive Encryption through a chip called TPM (Trusted Platform Module) in the =
computer's motherboard."
<br><br>is going to stop authorities from retreiving data?<br><br>I ask thi=
s question on the basis of their encrypted hard drive on the old xbox. It s=
upposedly used a secure key so the hard drive couldn't be upgraded, yet thi=
s fact didn't slow down the modd scene. Its not as if they are hardware enc=
rypting tightly is it?
<br><br>Just curious I guess.<br><br>-Chris<br></font><br><div><span class=
=3D"gmail_quote">On 15/02/06, <b class=3D"gmail_sendername">Steven M. Bello=
vin</b> <<a href=3D"mailto:smb@cs.columbia.edu">smb@cs.columbia.edu</a>&=
gt; wrote:
</span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rg=
b(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">According =
to the BBC, the British government is talking to Microsoft<br>about putting=
in a back door for the file encryption mechanisms.
<br><br><a href=3D"http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm">http=
://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4713018.stm</a><br><br><br><br> &nb=
sp; =
--Steven M. Bellovin, <a href=3D"http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~sm=
b">http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
</a><br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------=
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-- <br>-G<br><br>"The knack of flying is learning how to throw yoursel=
f at the ground and miss."<br>"He felt that his whole life was so=
me kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they we=
re enjoying it."
<br>"He inched his way up the corridor as if he would rather be yardin=
g his way down it..."<br>"We demand rigidly defined areas of doub=
t and uncertainty!"<br>"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing so=
und they make as they fly by."
<br><br>Famous Quotes written by Douglas Adams, (British comic w=
riter, 1952-2001)<br><a href=3D"http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/">http://h=
itchhikers.movies.go.com/</a>
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