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Re: is it possible to create a black box with debian?



On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 02:52:19PM +0000, enediel gonzalez wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I looking for information how to create a black box with debian to be able 
> to put a system on untrusted locations.
> 
> This system contains a web site as the only interface for the local users, 
> and ssh as the only way for the remote administration.
> 
> Locally, the server could be turned off, and restarted, consider the case 
> that it's necessary to change the ups, etc.
> 
> I need to protect the server against the case that somebody makes a disk 
> image, and later on can investigate what it's contained on it.
> 
> I found information about filesystems encryption, but in this scenario 
> somebody locally should have access in some way to key, I wanted to avoid 
> that, so the server could restart having somewhere encrypted all the 
> necessary information to start.
> 
> For local users is should be a real black box.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help, suggestion,. etc.
> 
What you want is not possible.  You must consider any system installed
in a physical location which you do not control to be compromised.

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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