[CoLoCo] researchers cracked Microsoft's BitLocker, Apple's FileVault and Linux's dm-crypt

[Walter Lamia]

Actually, that's not exactly true. Encryption with a "one-time pad" in 
which the key length is the same length as the plaintext is a perfect 
cypher, because ANY decrypted text of the same length is equally likely 
to be correct. The problem, of course, is that this is impractical for 
almost all computer uses.

Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
> Dave Vanderploeg wrote:
>   
>> I read about this the other day, and I had a few thoughts. Maybe its 
>> time to encrypt RAM? Maybe do a quick scramble of the ram when a 
>> computer shuts down (though this does nothing if a computer is on an 
>> they just pull the power source). I'm sure someone smarter than me 
>> will figure something out.
>>     
> As with DRM Copy Protection, its is IMPOSSIBLE to make an encryption 
> scheme that cannot be broken or circumvented.  It is NOT POSSIBLE, 
> period.  There will always be a way to get around it.  To me spending 
> millions to develop some new copy protection scheme or encryption system 
> is a big waste of time because eventually they'll prove useless in the 
> end.  They are in my mind Failed Technologies and not worth investing in.
>
>   

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