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Re: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista
From: Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers <bugtraq () planetcobalt net>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:58:17 +0100
On 2008-03-09 Larry Seltzer wrote:
WRT the DMA access over FireWire it's but a bad response since it doesn't get the point! 1. Drive encryption won't help against reading the memory. 2. The typical user authentication won't help, we're at hardware level here, and no OS needs to be involved. 3. The computer is up (and running; see above), no hibernate or sleep is involved here.So on a freshly-booted system with drive encryption you can read whatever you want on the disk?
Yes. Simply because the drive needs to be decrypted for the system to boot. Without decrypting the disk there's not difference to a switched- off box, because it's utterly unusable to anyone. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "All vulnerabilities deserve a public fear period prior to patches becoming available." --Jason Coombs on Bugtraq
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- RE: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Larry Seltzer (Mar 08)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Tim (Mar 08)
- RE: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Larry Seltzer (Mar 08)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Tim (Mar 10)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Jacob Appelbaum (Mar 10)
- RE: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Larry Seltzer (Mar 10)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Jacob Appelbaum (Mar 11)
- Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Stefan Kanthak (Mar 10)
- RE: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Larry Seltzer (Mar 10)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Stefan Kanthak (Mar 10)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers (Mar 10)
- Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Steve Shockley (Mar 11)
- Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Stefan Kanthak (Mar 13)
- Re: [Full-disclosure] Firewire Attack on Windows Vista FD (Mar 11)
- RE: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Thor (Hammer of God) (Mar 07)
- Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Tonnerre Lombard (Mar 07)
- Re: Firewire Attack on Windows Vista Nathanael Hoyle (Mar 07)