Re: encrypted root: prevent / detect tampering with kernel / initrd

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On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:31:16PM +0100, Hannes Erven wrote:
> Arno Wagner schrieb:
> > On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 12:11:58AM +0100, Heinz Diehl wrote:
> >> "Please repeat with me: there is no way to avoid or detect backdoors if
> >> physical access to the machine has ever been granted." (Werner Koch on
> >> gnupg-users 19.02.2009 on exactly the same topic).
> > 
> > I don't agree. 
> 
> How do you protect against e.g. a hardware key logger? You don't.

A hardware keylogger not a backdoor at all.

Arno 
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