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What can a master password also be called?
When having a company computer that is full disk encrypted, it is common that the boss have a master password / backdoor, so the data always can be decrypted.
I have heard some call this for "scrow" ...
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How can disk encryption systems (like Truecrypt) resist frequency analysis when they allow random access?
I don't understand how disk encryption (e.g. TrueCrypt) is supposed to resist frequency analysis.
If blocks can be randomly accessed (which they can), doesn't that mean that frequency-domain ...
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Information leakage from the ecryptfs filesystem
I'm wondering what information might be leaked from the ecryptfs filesystem. This is what Ubuntu uses if you check the box for "encrypted home directory" when using the desktop installer, so is ...
