From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:24:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:24:21 -0400 Received: from mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de ([129.69.1.226]:53771 "EHLO mercury.rus.uni-stuttgart.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 7 Aug 2001 12:24:06 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Encrypted Swap In-Reply-To: From: Florian Weimer Date: 07 Aug 2001 18:24:02 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Joel Jaeggli's message of "Tue, 7 Aug 2001 09:18:16 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090001 (Oort Gnus v0.01) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Joel Jaeggli writes: > It'll stop anything short of a scanning tunneling, or atomic force > microscope. I don't think you need extremly advanced technology to recover data (or even overwritten data) from damaged hard disks. In some cases, the only thing which has to be done is an electronic replacement. Scanning the surface of individual magnetic disks for information is probably out of the reach of the typical thief, but such service doesn't cost a fortune anymore either. -- Florian Weimer Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE University of Stuttgart http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/ RUS-CERT +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898