En réponse à Eduardo Schultze <duduschultze@xxxxxxxxx> : > > Hello, > > I'm a Security Information student at Unisinos College, > Brazil. As a paper during this semester it was me and > my colleagues choice to write a paper > about LUKS on Ubuntu 10.4. > > My question is - Is it possible to retrieve the passphrase > from RAM memory after a successful authentication and > shutdown? Is this case we would turn the system on, > authenticate, turn off, and then check if the passphrase > would still be in the RAM memory even with the turned off > computer. > The passphrase, I don't think so, but the master key, yes for sure. Here is a paper in french (maybe google translate can help) where somebody gets the master key, then use it for reading data: http://sylv1.tuxfamily.org/2008/240/gout-de-luks.html Hope this helps > ------------------------------------------ Envoyé avec Inmano, ma messagerie renversante et gratuite : http://www.inmano.com _______________________________________________ dm-crypt mailing list dm-crypt@xxxxxxxx http://www.saout.de/mailman/listinfo/dm-crypt
