Re: [tor-talk] [tor-dev] resistance to rubberhose and UDP questions

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On 06/10/12 22:44, tor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From:
> http://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/tresorfiles/tresor.pdf
> 
> "TRESOR is only compatible with real hardware. Run- ning TRESOR as
> guest inside a virtual machine is gen- erally insecure as the
> guest?s registers are stored in the host?s main memory."
> 
> This is a serious project. They have considered many different
> styles of attack, and have included attack code. The PDF is
> comprehensive.

Also, the encryption/decryption is done using a key derived from the
password which you enter at the very beginning of boot up. Not with
the password or key you provide to cryptsetup/luks. This wasn't clear
to me when I wrote the blog post which I linked to. It's all in the PDF.

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