full-disclosure - Re: Brilliant attack "bypasses" bitlocker

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Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:24:32 +0300
From: yaroslav <ambivalenced@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Brilliant attack "bypasses" bitlocker

I couldn't imagine a method more reliable than thermorectal
cryptoanalysis, but you have done it with number 3). however, there is
a weak point:  if, during the process of universe destruction, an
attacker are under constant observation by someone, his psi-function
might eventually collapse somewhere he really don't want to be...

>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/05/windows_bitlocker_attacks/
>
> Research grant ideas for 2010:
>
> 1) Replacing not only the computer, but victim's entire apartment,
> with cardboard cutouts to intercept passwords,
>
> 2) Substituting victim's spouse with a conspicuously German lookalike,
>
> 3) Destroying all quantum-superposed universes in which the password
> is *not* known to the attacker, in order to emerge in one where it is.
>
> 4) ???
>
> 5) Profit.
>
> /mz
>
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