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Careful there: "Interesting - the hacker can't work without a pass phrase! Perhaps Declan McCullagh is only being fooled - perhaps it's simply that the pass phrase is used to create the key?"

Pass phrases and user account password are OS acess controls to grant/deny access to the actual keying material. If you can retrieve the actual keying material used to encrypt the data, you don't need the user account password or passphrase to get at the keying material.; Posted by: georgeou Posted on: 02/21/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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Supercooled memory? Eriamjh | 02/21/08

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