evil maid
December 14th, 2009 at 02:48pm
Under TPM
As I suspected two months ago when the Evil Maid first came to my attention, she can get at your hard disk encryption passwords even if you use TPM, as discussed in a recent article on The H. Note that even though they described the hack in detail, Fraunhofer also stressed that: Despite the security [...]
Continue Reading Fraunhofer SIT and their BitLocker TPM hacks
Tags: bitlocker, evil maid, Fraunhofer, heise
By Ken Y-N
November 27th, 2009 at 04:17pm
Under General
The Evil Maid attack is an interesting way to hack certain full disk encryption systems, and with Google recently releasing the design documents for their new Chromium (Chrome) OS I was curious to see if an Evil Maid could get nasty with your Chromium-based device. The good news is no, the Evil Maid cannot attack [...]
Continue Reading Google Chromium (Chrome) OS versus the Evil Maid
Tags: chrome, chromium, evil maid, google
By Ken Y-N
October 16th, 2009 at 03:44pm
Under TPM
No, it’s not the latest Halloween movie, but instead one part of a very interesting post on the Invisible Things Labs blog by Joanna Rutkowska on Evil Maid goes after TrueCrypt! The Evil Maid scenario is a laptop computer with disk encryption left in a hotel room. The first day, the Evil Maid boots off [...]
Continue Reading Evil Maid versus the TPM
Tags: evil maid, invisible things
By Ken Y-N