[ale] A response to Apple v DoJ

[Jim Kinney]

On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 14:05 -0500, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Hell, while we're at it, why not a duress password that accesses a
> dummy account with fake, safe data, and a nukeit password that wipes
> the device?
All for it. The only drawback to the safe data is it MUST be clearly
current - same day email usage, new browser history, some files
changed, etc. 
A way to automatically generate safe data while working in the security
zone would be great. 
The nukeit should only blow away the safe zone data. It would be fun to
have it autogenerate GOBS of garbage data for the safe zone so those
that are looking will be kept busy. 
> 

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 1:59 PM, Alex Carver > <agcarver+ale at acarver.net>>  wrote:
> > On 2016-02-25 08:54, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 11:45 -0500, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> > 
> > >> On 02/25/16 11:19, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > 
> > >>>
> > 
> > >>> And backups defeat the purpose of the dead man switch. It's really
> > 
> > >>> a
> > 
> > >>> catch-22 situation. You would need a secret backup with it's own
> > 
> > >>> dead
> > 
> > >>> man switch. Miss one scheduled backup time and the clock starts
> > 
> > >>> ticking.
> > 
> > >>> Make the backups from the phone manual.
> > 
> > >>
> > 
> > >> True, but I get to choose the encryption for the backups, not some
> > 
> > >> vendor. Thinking blowfish with a 448bit key length. Definitely avoid
> > 
> > >> AES.
> > 
> > > But the holes and backdoors in AES make it run Sooooo much faster!
> > 
> > > I saw a 2048 bit key printed out once using bar codes. Scan them back
> > 
> > > in in the correct order and you have the private key restored.
> > 

> > 
> > In one off-site location that I have to store a couple passwords, I use
> > 
> > an NFC MiFare tag with a few kbytes of storage.  The password is stored
> > 
> > there encrypted and the tag can be hidden with no identifying markings.
> > 
> >  I did the same thing once with a paper one-time MARTA Breeze card.  The
> > 
> > card can be formatted and reused as a blank storage card but it only has
> > 
> > about 64 bytes of storage.
> > 

> > 
> > Granted you need an NFC reader to pull the data off but it's not obvious
> > 
> > what the tag is because the generic MiFare card is just a piece of white
> > 
> > plastic.
> > 

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