Re: DM-Crypt resistance against Cold Boot Attacks

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Looks like, in theory at least, it could be use be used for other
encryption algorithms too, like Twofish or Serpent.

I hope the hardware specifics would still be practical with Twofish.
>From what I've read, Serpent and Ridjindael are already broken.
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0209.html#1
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/new_attack_on_a.html
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_aes.html

On 18 May 2011 22:03, Arno Wagner <arno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From the paper, TRESOR is a Linux kernel patch, hence not something
> that would be added to cryptsetup, but the kernel.
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> Arno
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> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:24:17PM +0200, Philipp Deppenwiese wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> a guy from a germany university impelemented an AES-NI with resistance
>> against Cold boot attacks and timing attacks. Maybe it's usefule to
>> modify the dm-crypt code.
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>> http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/tresor/
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>> Greetz Philipp
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