Pre-boot authentication (PBA) or power-on authentication (POA) serves as an extension of the BIOS, UEFI or boot firmware and guarantees a secure, tamper-proof...
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encrypt a partition or (in Windows) the entire storage device with pre-boot authentication. VeraCrypt is a fork of the discontinued TrueCrypt project. It...
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"Bypassing pre-boot authentication passwords by instrumenting the BIOS keyboard buffer (practical low level attacks against x86 pre-boot authentication software)"...
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Disk encryption (section The boot key problem)
crypto-boundary of the drive. All solutions for the boot drive require a pre-boot authentication component which is available for all types of solutions...
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than others. Pre-boot authentication: Whether authentication can be required before booting the computer, thus allowing one to encrypt the boot disk. Single...
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file, encrypt a partition, or encrypt the whole storage device (pre-boot authentication). On 28 May 2014, the TrueCrypt website announced that the project...
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successful boot. User authentication mode: This mode requires that the user provide some authentication to the pre-boot environment in the form of a pre-boot PIN...
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Identity-based security Information security IT network assurance Pre-boot authentication Privacy engineering Privacy law Raz-Lee Security breach notification...
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extraction Peroxybenzoic acid Phone Book Access, a Bluetooth profile Pre-boot authentication Probability bounds analysis, a mathematical method of risk analysis...
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operating system starts up with pre-boot authentication, however precautions still need to be taken against cold boot attacks. There are a number of tools...
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UEFI (redirect from Windows 8 secure boot)
is effective at securing only the user space, and not the pre-boot state for which Secure Boot is designed to add protection. That also allows users to...
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In computing, booting is the process of starting a computer as initiated via hardware such as a physical button on the computer or by a software command...
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credentials. File-based encryption removes the requirement for pre-boot authentication: instead, Android boots normally without additional intervention...
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begin booting and then execute a cold boot attack against the machine to retrieve the key. Due to this, two-factor authentication, such as a pre-boot PIN...
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partitions or volumes together with pre-boot authentication for encrypted boot partitions. Two-factor authentication. Support for size-efficient Dynamic...
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Google Authenticator is a software-based authenticator by Google. It implements multi-factor authentication services using the time-based one-time password...
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Standard (AES) keys. Authentication on power up of the drive must still take place within the CPU via either a software pre-boot authentication environment (i...
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LVM physical volumes. dm-crypt can also be configured to provide pre-boot authentication through an initrd, thus encrypting all the data on a computer –...
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cards (two-factor authentication), though only to store keyfiles (without encryption). TrueCrypt boot loader now customizable. Pre-boot passwords can be...
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"Black Hat USA 2015". Blackhat Conference. "BitLocker, Brossard's Pre-boot Authentication Research, and the BSI". Microsoft Security. Archived from the original...
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unrelated nodes in different clusters. To authenticate users to the web GUI, Proxmox can use its own internal authentication database, PAM, OIDC, LDAP or Active...
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Intel vPro (redirect from Intel Boot Guard)
lengths of 2048 bits. HTTP digest authentication protocol as defined in RFC 2617. The management console authenticates IT administrators who manage PCs...
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BIOS (redirect from BIOS Boot Sequence)
to perform hardware initialization during the booting process (power-on startup). The firmware comes pre-installed on the computer's motherboard. The name...
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integrity measurements, authentication of a local or remote machine or software configuration, and encrypted paths for user authentication and graphics output...
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Secure Remote Password protocol (category Password authentication)
RFC 2945. Challenge–response authentication Password-authenticated key agreement Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) Simple Password...
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proving its identity. Authentication Login Password Passphrase Password strength One-time password Multi-factor authentication Identity management Identity...
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Bootstrapping (redirect from Boot-strap)
handle at the top known as a bootstrap, allowing one to use fingers or a boot hook tool to help pull the boots on. The saying "pull oneself up by one's...
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LAN Manager (category Password authentication)
protocol can no longer be used for inbound authentication—where Windows Vista is acting as the authentication server. Johansson, Jasper M. (June 29, 2004)...
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able to hijack them. Graphical identification and authentication (GINA), used for secure authentication and interactive logon has been replaced by Credential...
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Windows 11 (section Pre-release)
its predecessor, Windows 11 also supports multi-factor authentication and biometric authentication through Windows Hello. In subsequent updates, Microsoft...
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