Bugtraq: Re: Steganos Encrypted Safe NOT so safe

[Andreas Beck <becka-list-bugtraq () bedatec de>]

frankrizzo604 () gmail com wrote:
> They boast how excellent their encryption and how uncrackable they are. 
If your findings are true, it is utterly insecure. Worse than what you
found.

Can someone confirm this vulnerability?

> Simply mount anyones .SLE file encrypted drive into the software and it 
> will ask you for their password but won't let you in because it's 
> encrypted.
If your findings are true, it is not encrypted, bute merely
access-controlled by the Steganos Software.

If it were encrypted - in the sense of "encrypted with the passphrase, so
unuseable without that" - the program would simply be unable to do something 
like:

> [update detects fake key and]
> after the update and it will now PUNISH you by resetting your
> encrypted drives passwords to "123" until you buy a registered copy.
This should be impossible, if the passphrase would play a role in the
encryption.

> Stores passwords in clear text. 
Yes - the key must be retrievable in some way, if the password can be
changed without knowledge of the prior password.


Kind regards,

Andreas Beck

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