Ralf Ronneburger wrote:
Crispin Cowan schrieb:
Encryption *is* senseless for anything but a mobile device like a laptop or a PDA.
"If you think that encryption will solve your security problems, then you understand neither encryption nor security." -- attributed to several different people.
True. What I wanted to say (and I think I did not make this clear enough) is that only unmounted volumes are safe with encryption, mounted ones are never. That's why it makes only sense for desktop and even more notebook-computers.
Yes, that's true. Only unmounted volumes have the property that you can reasonably and effectively separate the key from the ciphertext. So, being unmounted is a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for encryption of stored data to be useful. The sufficient condition is that the key and the data are stored separately. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. http://crispincowan.com/~crispin/ Director of Software Engineering http://novell.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-security+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-security+help@opensuse.org