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to: ARNOUD BAKKER
from: SCOTT MCNAY
date: 1997-12-21 22:33:00
subject: Code in Boot Sector

 *** Arnoud Bakker wrote in a message to Scott McNay:
AB> Just encrypting the MBR will do the trick (user on other
AB> disk can't read your partitions then)
 SM> Oh??  That certainly wouldn't stop ME.  That's quite easy to get
 SM> around (if you know how, of course ;).  Setting up the partitions
 SM> funny before encrypting would help, but I'd still be able to figure
 SM> it out.
AB> Of course, somebody using a deassembler would just look
AB> where to find the real MBR...
I wouldnt bother trying to decrypt the real MBR.  And if it's stored 
unencrypted elsewhere on the drive, well, there's only so many places where 
you can put it, unless you want to push up the complexity level.  In any 
event, it's easier to just build a new MBR.  This would work, unless the 
partitions are set up funny to make it hard to determine the start of a 
partition.
--Scott.
--- timEd 1.01
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