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Subject: Re: BootUp Security!
From: Jeff Fay <fay @ bliss . stetson . edu>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 1996 09:46:45 +0000 (GMT)
To: Adam Shostack <adam @ homeport . org>
Cc: stigmata @ pacbell . net, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199608131242 . HAA09341 @ homeport . org>


On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, Adam Shostack wrote:

> Robert Carter wrote:
> 
> | We recently had a breakin and the R&D department was litteraly broken
> | apart for their harddrives is there anyway to protect data that is
> | stored on a down system like this.?
> | mailto:stigmata @
 pacbell .
 net
> | Robert
> 
> Sure.  Theres encryption, and physical security.
> 
> 	For disk encryption on UNIX, use CFS.
> ftp.research.att.com/pub/mab/?  On macs, look into Cryptdisk, or for
> PCs, I think securedrive is reccommended, but I haven't used it.  All
> use (or offer) strong encryption at the filesystem level.
> 
  What exactly is strong encryption? DES? RSA? Just curious...because if I
have the hard drives I have all the time in the world to brute force it.
-Jeff "Fiji" Fay



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