Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1306 mails)

[Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/02/12 07:11, Anton Aylward wrote:
> Ah well....
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/03/apple_disc_crypto_broken/
>
> <quote>
> Passware claims the latest version of its toolkit (Passware Kit Forensic
> v11.3) can also unlock volumes encrypted using TrueCrypt, a disk
> encryption software that ranks alongside PGP as the choice of
> privacy-conscious computer users, human rights activists and others.
> </quote>


I think that you also could have quoted this from the article:

QUOTE

Cracking Mac OS X Lion's FileVault encryption using the technology 
requires physical access to a targeted machine, and the presence of a 
working FireWire port. As such, it's not much use for remote hack 
attacks. The encryption keys of password-protected machines cannot be 
extracted unless machines are turned on.

If an attacker can get hold of a machine that's already switched on or 
where no password protection is applied then the full key extraction 
process "takes no more than 40 minutes - regardless of the length or 
complexity of the password," Passware claims.

UNQUOTE

BC

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