FBI-virus software cracks encryption wall

[Eugene Leitl]

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Gilles Gravier wrote:

> Jetico ( http://www.jetico.com/ ) has a hard disk encryption software
> called BestCrypt, which can actually intercept the keystrokes at BIOS
> level, get the correct keys and re-maps them to random for upper

Linux doesn't have a BIOS level so this approach wouldn't work. In fact
Linux can be used instead of a BIOS (LinuxBIOS), in case you don't trust
the BIOS (some viruses can write themselves into BIOS flash).

> layers... like keystroke loggers.





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