OK - time to give up on encryption.....

[Dom Latter]

On Saturday 07 February 2009 20:35:10 support wrote:

> Definitely well worth a play with! However, looks as if someone really
> wants the info on my drive then I'm stuffed!!!:
>
> http://citp.princeton.edu/pub/coldboot.pdf

In practical terms it doesn't make much if any difference, depending on
who you are trying to defeat.

The following is informative reading:
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1141047297126
When the FBI (probably with their friends in the NSA etc) needed to decrypt
a PGP-encrypted hard drive, 
1) it took them a *long* time
2) they did it by password-guessing, not cracking the actual encryption.