Tuesday, 24 January 2012

Encryption != Protection

And there you have it.   Encryption is not necessarily going to protect you or your company.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/judge-orders-laptop-decryption/

3 comments:

  1. I think this, or a similar case will need to go before the US Supreme Court for a ruling eventually.  In the mean time, "I forgot the decryption password" would be a valid next step for her.

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  2. Cue the encryption industry providing a solution where if you enter password A you decrypt but if you enter password B you destroy.

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  3. I know that TrueCrypt has plausible deniability built in as one of their encryption schemas.   I wonder how long before traditional vendors introduce the same...

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