Unattended reboots (was Re: The clouds are not random enough)

[Ali, Saqib]

> If you (or anyone on this forum) know of technology that allows the
> application to gain access to the crypto-hardware after an unattended
> reboot - but can prevent an attacker from gaining access to those keys
> after compromising a legitimate ID on the machine

This is the conundrum of the of the the decade. The TPMs etc, tie a
HDD to a server. This helps in cases where the HDDs are discarded w/o
proper destruction of data or are stolen. If you have a problem of
entire servers being stolen, than you have to worry about physical
security.

saqib
http://kawphi.blogspot.com

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