[KLUG Members] Monthly Word From The Program Director

[Bryan J. Smith]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> July 10: Bruce Smith discussing Crypted File Systems,  enabling you to
> make your data truly secure,  and forgetting that password truly
> painful.

Everyone should remember that NTFS v5 with encryption is a
_false_sense_of_security_.  When the system is mounted, it is
useless.  When the system is not mounted, you can still get it by
tracing the bootstrap and loaders.  The only time crypted
filesystems are truly secure are when they are not mounted, and
mounting them is not automated (i.e. you have to put in a password
to mount it).

-- TheBS

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Bryan J. Smith   mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org   chat:thebs413
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