Magic Lantern adds public key and password encryption!

[Marsu42]

This is work in progress, but I cannot help but to cross-post my fascination what these guys are able to do:

The other very able ml dev g3gg0 just added a module that lets you encrypt your picture files when they are written to the card ... not only with a password you have to type in at every boot, but with a public key file so that only your private key @home is able to decrypt the files!

The one catch is that you cannot view the public-key encrypted files in-camera anymore, that's only possible with the plain ol' password atm ... but still, this is absolute amazing and should prove invaluable for journalism work and preventing greedy customers pressuring you to "just copy over all your raw files" after a shot

http://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=9963.msg97035#msg97035

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

I'd probably just lock my self out, but hackers would have no issue. There are always loopholes in security schemes.

 

[Drizzt321]

I'd probably just lock my self out, but hackers would have no issue. There are always loopholes in security schemes.

Yup, steal the private key! Unless you use crappy settings and short length key to create the key, or keep the private key somewhere easy to access, unencrypted/no password/crappy password.

Or at least, that's what law enforcement will do. Oh, wait, they'll just make a bogus claim and force you to turn over the private key </sarcasm & tinfoil hat>

 

[Marsu42]

I'd probably just lock my self out, but hackers would have no issue. There are always loopholes in security schemes.

Of course, but the people able to find or buy the information about these exploits are the exact ones who are able just to abduct you, stuff you in some east european prison, point a gun to your head and ask nicely about the information they'd like to have.

For everyone else, public key encryption is as good as it gets as you don't have to remember any passphrase for the public key, i.e. you cannot use "password" as your password which is a much larger security hole as everything else.

 

[cayenne]

I'd probably just lock my self out, but hackers would have no issue. There are always loopholes in security schemes.

Yup, steal the private key! Unless you use crappy settings and short length key to create the key, or keep the private key somewhere easy to access, unencrypted/no password/crappy password.

Or at least, that's what law enforcement will do. Oh, wait, they'll just make a bogus claim and force you to turn over the private key </sarcasm & tinfoil hat>

You might give them the key, but you don't have to give them the password. Just make sure and have properly difficult passwords.



OH, and if law enforcement is involved, the smartest thing is to immediately LAWYER UP, and you shut up, don't tell them a thing.

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