Re: Hard Drive Destruct System?

From: Lassi Hippeläinen (lahippel_at_ieee.orgies.invalid)
Date: 11/29/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 07:21:22 GMT

Walter Roberson wrote:
>
> In article <co9dgu$t1d$1@nyytiset.pp.htv.fi>,
> =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Lassi_Hippel=E4inen?=
> <lahippel@IEEE.ORGasm-research.invalid> wrote:
> :Next time you could use the $0 method: store sensitive data in encrypted
> :files or partitions. Physical destruction won't be necessary.
>
> Yeh, provide the attacker with a very large base of known
> plaintext / cryptotext pairs [the operating system, the filesystem
> table, headers for known document types], and give the attacker
> unlimited access and time to make the attempt. That'll stay secure
> for sure.
> --
> Look out, there are llamas!

Modern ciphers *are* resistant to known plaintext attacks.

-- Lassi