Security hole

Anil Kumar Sharma xplusaks at gmail.com
Fri Dec 9 20:49:16 UTC 2005


Trusted Platform Module (TPM), does it help?
Can it at all deliver these functions being discussed?
I mean does FC4 support this technology?
Of course data has to be encrypted, else the data fashions invisible
clothing.


On 12/9/05, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
>
> The basic measure is to password protect the BIOS and disable booting
> from anything but the hard drive.  It is theoretically possible to
> encrypt all of the drives and then either require user input or the
> presence of some external device like a USB fob containing encryption
> keys.  Perhaps there's a more paranoid Linux distro out there which
> supports this.
>
>
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Anil Kumar Shrama
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