Re: Fighting Keyloggers

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I don't want that this topic disappears like many others. dm-crypt
list is pretty quiet and many great topics just disappear because
nobody answers.

I do not have anything to add to this topic because my knowledge is
not good enough, but I believe that the people who are involved in
luks/cryptsetup surely have this knowledge.

M.



2007/8/30, Klaus-J. Wolf <yanestra@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thursday 30 August 2007 05:25:11 Roscoe wrote:
> > I quite like gpggrid's approach to defeating key loggers:
> > http://tinfoilhat.shmoo.com/source/gpggrid.c
> > [I'd like it more if it were done so I didn't have to hit 3 keys to
> > enter 1 character.]
>
> Sigh. IMHO, these puzzle-like passphrase entry procedures are no perfect
> solution either. At least not if you have the possibility to log (or see)
> console output or device traffic.
>
> There once was a nice-looking solution in which you were required to arrange
> several distorted puzzle fragments - and the way how you did it, became your
> passphrase. Wonderful, but not so well if three meters away from you somebody
> recording the compromising radiation emitted by your monitor.
>
> On the other hand, I think _something_ should be done. It's no good idea to
> lock the door but leave the windows open just beacuse some people could break
> them in anyway.
>
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