Re: RSA's SecurPC not-so-"Secur"

Kriston J. Rehberg (kriston@ibm.net)
Tue, 2 Jun 1998 11:17:32 -0400

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dontspam-tzeruch@ceddec.com writes:
>
>(and do the secure filesystems work with NT?)

Safehouse works on NT. It just creates a virtual drive letter. It
works on DOS, Windows 95 and NT, and even works on read-only media
(eg, you can copy your files onto a 650 MB virtual drive and then burn
the volume file onto a CD-R). You can find it at www.pcdynamics.com.
It allows you to select many different algorithms but be warned it is
not cheap.

I like it better than SecurPC because it's transparent. I believe
that Safehouse burns the passphrase after use -- after all, it's only
used to decrypt the private key that's used for the actual encryption.
But if you're good enough you can probably find the private key in
memory. But that would only happen if you left your computer
unattended. To guard against this, Safehouse under Windows 95/NT can
be made to burn the keys after a specified interval (requiring you to
re-enter the passphrase to reach the encrypted volume(s) again).

Kris

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