Re: faq8.html#LostPW

Tomas Bodzar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.www
Message-ID <CAK3FJdktV0+k4zsdTDjzdRUThvTuBGzGMeDg3X9FyBSU5Zir4A@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 11:43 PM, rustyBSD <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> "If an attacker has physical access to your system, they win, regardless
> of the OS on the computer."
> NO. Some Linux distribs can have a full disk encryption.
>
> Instead of telling "they win", it should be better to tell something
> like: "OpenBSD doesn't support
> full disk encryption, but you can use vnconfig(8) to crypt a non-root
> partition."

You can have encrypted disk on OpenBSD with softraid, but still it
means they win because they will have enough time for later analysis.
Sure protects fine against typical threat, but devil is hidden
elsewhere. The rest is very well described by Tobias and one point
missing - torture of you or your family so you will be much more then
happy to provide keys for your system.

It's not about technology (*BSD, Linux, ......). System itself is
wrong (guess which one).
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