secure data export

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 25/06/11 21:58, Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda wrote:
>
> I am trying to prevent a specific action of various possible 
> (imaginary?) malware, which attempt to export data as hitchhikers on 
> data which is exported anyhow. I do not assume the malware is trying 
> to add itself to the CD, in addition to the data.
>
> The OCR idea is indeed nice. However, it is only good for small 
> amounts of data, or where the accuracy is not so important (English 
> texts). It is not so good for Hebrew or data (numbers), not to mention 
> binary data.
Your suggestions assumed there was someone (human) able to go over the 
data and say "yes, this is what it is supposed to be". If this is large 
amounts of binary data, how do you plan to do that? You will need some 
computer that can be trusted. If you do have that, things are, already, 
much simpler.

Shachar

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Shachar Shemesh
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