It doesn't matter. One night a couple of people will come and make you
an offer regarding the welfare of you family and you will tell them the
keys.

Eric Smith wrote:
>
> Bii wrote:
> > Well, I gingerlly took apart one of our encrption devices (I assume that
> > ones protected by explosives have warning labels), and its protection
> > seemed to consist of switches that shut off the power to battery-backed
> > sram that held the code/keys/whatever whenever the cover was removed.
>
> Peter wrote:
> > Those are easy prey after an X-ray picture to show the switches. You
> > should not post this kind of info here imho. Neither should I.
>
> Which is why the true high-security stuff also contains X-Ray detectors,
> oxygen detectors, and various other detectors, any one of which will dump
> the RAM contents if triggered.
>
> Commercial-grade stuff is usually not too well secured.

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