[Arm-netbook] hardware encrypted flash drive idea with gpl3 license

zap calmstorm at posteo.de
Thu Sep 21 02:49:35 BST 2017



On 09/20/2017 04:14 PM, Christopher Havel wrote:
> Forgive my inevitable naivety with regard to this sort of thing, but can't
> gparted create encrypted partitions, and why wouldn't that be secure
> enough...? My understanding is that it still takes a few hundred years to
> crack AES encryption with a standard PC... and the average criminals who
> are likely to blackmail you, I can't imagine they're well funded enough to
> buy a supercomputer sufficient to pop the lid on those things in a
> reasonably timely fashion.
You could be right, but It would be a good thing for those who lose
things they don't want others to access. also, hardware encryption is
far stronger than software encryption.
>
> Of course, if you piss off the Russian Mob, that's different, at least
> potentially... but that's also a comparatively pretty rare circumstance,
> I'd think.
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