I like the stolen phone sms message. <br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Ilja O. <<a href="mailto:vrghost@gmail.com">vrghost@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Christoph Fink<br><<a href="mailto:buffoon@buffoon.homelinux.org">buffoon@buffoon.homelinux.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Ilja O. wrote:<br>>><br>>> 1) Auth using PIN number (this requires encrypted image presence in<br>
>> phone file system by it's boot time end -- not reallyl convenient if<br>>> SD card is used).<br>>><br>><br>> IMO encrypting Data with the PIN Number is not such a good thing, because<br>> the possibilities of different keys are definately not high (max 8 digits,<br>
> only numbers). A better solution would be to save the PIN on the encrypted<br>> storage and automatically read it.<br>>><br><br></div>I don't see point in making secure protection from somebody that has<br>
stolen phone to obtain your data, since anything that phones' CPU will<br>be able to encrypt/decrypt without draining battery much faster than<br>it should be. I'm telling about making protection from phone thief,<br>
that simply has stolen your phone and is now trying to power it up and<br>obtain any easily accessible plain data. And for this aim almost any<br>encryption will do.<br><br>To protect yourself from data thiefs the best way, imho, would be to<br>
program a daemon that wipes out all phone memory when phone receives<br>an SMS message with predefined contents.<br>
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