Re: raw disk access

2003-02-10 Thread Peter Cordes
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:43:22AM -0500, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 at 01:24:29PM +0100, Alberto Cort?s wrote: > > cp, dd and every command use the system calls, and system calls use > > the drivers, and i am not sure the drivers don't modify "structure". > > dd, cat, etc. do

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-10 Thread Peter Cordes
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 08:43:22AM -0500, Phillip Hofmeister wrote: > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 at 01:24:29PM +0100, Alberto Cort?s wrote: > > cp, dd and every command use the system calls, and system calls use > > the drivers, and i am not sure the drivers don't modify "structure". > > dd, cat, etc. do

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-10 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 at 01:24:29PM +0100, Alberto Cort?s wrote: > cp, dd and every command use the system calls, and system calls use > the drivers, and i am not sure the drivers don't modify "structure". dd, cat, etc. do modify the structure. One common way I rip an ISO is: cat /dev/cdrom > myfi

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-10 Thread Alberto Cortés
El sáb, 08 de feb de 2003, a las 23:49 +0100, Christian decía que: > What about > > cp /dev/sdx /dev/sdy > cp, dd and every command use the system calls, and system calls use the drivers, and i am not sure the drivers don't modify "structure". example: step 1) you read a block of data fro

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-10 Thread Phillip Hofmeister
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 at 01:24:29PM +0100, Alberto Cort?s wrote: > cp, dd and every command use the system calls, and system calls use > the drivers, and i am not sure the drivers don't modify "structure". dd, cat, etc. do modify the structure. One common way I rip an ISO is: cat /dev/cdrom > myfi

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-10 Thread Alberto Cortés
El sáb, 08 de feb de 2003, a las 23:49 +0100, Christian decía que: > What about > > cp /dev/sdx /dev/sdy > cp, dd and every command use the system calls, and system calls use the drivers, and i am not sure the drivers don't modify "structure". example: step 1) you read a block of data fro

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-09 Thread Luis Gomez
On Sábado, 8 de Febrero de 2003 23:49, Christian Storch wrote: > What about > > cp /dev/sdx /dev/sdy > > It works very well on two identical drives - > - perhaps when the second one is larger, too. > You don't need any permissions. The result is really a clone > including partition table! > I used

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-09 Thread Luis Gomez
On Sábado, 8 de Febrero de 2003 23:49, Christian Storch wrote: > What about > > cp /dev/sdx /dev/sdy > > It works very well on two identical drives - > - perhaps when the second one is larger, too. > You don't need any permissions. The result is really a clone > including partition table! > I used

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-08 Thread Christian Storch
Original Message - > From: "Alberto Cortés" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-security" > Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 12:43 PM > Subject: Re: raw disk access > El mar, 07 de ene de 2003, a las 19:51 -0800, > Blars decía que: > > > In art

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-08 Thread Christian Storch
Original Message - > From: "Alberto Cortés" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Debian-security" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 12:43 PM > Subject: Re: raw disk access > El mar, 07 de ene de 2003, a las 19:51 -0800, > Blars decía

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-08 Thread Alberto Cortés
El mar, 07 de ene de 2003, a las 19:51 -0800, Blars decía que: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > i am looking for forensics tools that can be used in computer > > crime investigations, and am particularly interesting in a tool > > that provides raw drive (

Re: raw disk access

2003-02-08 Thread Alberto Cortés
El mar, 07 de ene de 2003, a las 19:51 -0800, Blars decía que: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > i am looking for forensics tools that can be used in computer > > crime investigations, and am particularly interesting in a tool > > that provides raw drive (

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-16 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
yes you can :) On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 07:50:38PM +0100, Joshua SS Miller wrote: > Just a thought, but could one just use cat? I know that you can write > disk image to a floppy with cat, so why should one not be able to cat > /dev/hda1 > imagefile > > Any ideas? > > Thank you, > > Joshua SS M

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-16 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
yes you can :) On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 07:50:38PM +0100, Joshua SS Miller wrote: > Just a thought, but could one just use cat? I know that you can write > disk image to a floppy with cat, so why should one not be able to cat > /dev/hda1 > imagefile > > Any ideas? > > Thank you, > > Joshua SS M

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Andreas Kotes
Hi! * Martin Hermanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030116 01:18]: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:26:32PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > > "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andreas> patch-int is all of the above combined, for (optional) > > Andreas> compilation into the kerne

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Martin Hermanowski
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:26:32PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Andreas> here's how I understand it: > > [...] > > Andreas> patch-int is all of the above combined, for (optional) > Andreas> compilation into the kernel. >

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Andreas> here's how I understand it: [...] Andreas> patch-int is all of the above combined, for (optional) Andreas> compilation into the kernel. That would have been my guess too. BTW, I've also grepped through the cryptoapi a

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Andreas Kotes
Hi! * Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030115 22:55]: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas> have a look at the sourcecode in e.g. > Andreas> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr/testing/patch-int-2.4.20.1.bz2 > > Thanks. I'll take a look at t

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Andreas Kotes
Hi! * Martin Hermanowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030116 01:18]: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:26:32PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > > "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andreas> patch-int is all of the above combined, for (optional) > > Andreas> compilation into the kerne

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Martin Hermanowski
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 06:26:32PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > Andreas> here's how I understand it: > > [...] > > Andreas> patch-int is all of the above combined, for (optional) > Andreas> compilation into the kernel. >

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Andreas> have a look at the sourcecode in e.g. Andreas> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr/testing/patch-int-2.4.20.1.bz2 Thanks. I'll take a look at that. If you don't mind clarifying something for me, what is

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Andreas> here's how I understand it: [...] Andreas> patch-int is all of the above combined, for (optional) Andreas> compilation into the kernel. That would have been my guess too. BTW, I've also grepped through the cryptoapi a

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Andreas Kotes
Hi! * Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030115 21:33]: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas> FUD alert! I like loop-AES, too, and would REALLY love general > Andreas> inclusion into Debian kernels, but this doesn't mean the > Andreas> authors of alternatives ar

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Andreas Kotes
Hi! * Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030115 22:55]: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas> have a look at the sourcecode in e.g. > Andreas> >http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr/testing/patch-int-2.4.20.1.bz2 > > Thanks. I'll take a look at th

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Andreas> FUD alert! I like loop-AES, too, and would REALLY love general Andreas> inclusion into Debian kernels, but this doesn't mean the Andreas> authors of alternatives are/may be idiots. Andreas> Please don't spread Fear, Unce

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Andreas> have a look at the sourcecode in e.g. Andreas> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hvr/testing/patch-int-2.4.20.1.bz2 Thanks. I'll take a look at that. If you don't mind clarifying something for me, what is

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Andreas Kotes
Hi! * Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030115 21:33]: > > "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Andreas> FUD alert! I like loop-AES, too, and would REALLY love general > Andreas> inclusion into Debian kernels, but this doesn't mean the > Andreas> authors of alternatives ar

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Andreas" == Andreas Kotes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] Andreas> FUD alert! I like loop-AES, too, and would REALLY love general Andreas> inclusion into Debian kernels, but this doesn't mean the Andreas> authors of alternatives are/may be idiots. Andreas> Please don't spread Fear, Unce

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Hubert Chan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Do the kerneli modules (officially) work with encrypted swap? I know It works for me. > encryption, which may allocate new memory, ad infinitum. loop-AES takes > care of that explicitly, by preallocating memory, but I don't think > cryptoapi/cryptol

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:08:22PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Rolf" == Rolf Kutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rolf> * Quoting Joshua SS Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier > >> today. Do you have a good resource for this?

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Hubert Chan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Do the kerneli modules (officially) work with encrypted swap? I know It works for me. > encryption, which may allocate new memory, ad infinitum. loop-AES takes > care of that explicitly, by preallocating memory, but I don't think > cryptoapi/cryptol

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Andreas Kotes
Hi! * Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030115 04:20]: > > "Rolf" == Rolf Kutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rolf> * Quoting Joshua SS Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier > >> today. Do you have a good resource for this? > > Ro

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Dale Amon
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:08:22PM -0500, Hubert Chan wrote: > > "Rolf" == Rolf Kutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Rolf> * Quoting Joshua SS Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier > >> today. Do you have a good resource for this?

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-15 Thread Andreas Kotes
Hi! * Hubert Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030115 04:20]: > > "Rolf" == Rolf Kutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rolf> * Quoting Joshua SS Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier > >> today. Do you have a good resource for this? > > Ro

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-14 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Rolf" == Rolf Kutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rolf> * Quoting Joshua SS Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier >> today. Do you have a good resource for this? Rolf> http://www.kerneli.org/index.php Do the kerneli modules (offici

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-14 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Rolf" == Rolf Kutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rolf> * Quoting Joshua SS Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier >> today. Do you have a good resource for this? Rolf> http://www.kerneli.org/index.php Do the kerneli modules (offici

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-14 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Joshua SS Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier > today. Do you have a good resource for this? http://www.kerneli.org/index.php - rk -- Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE! Yrs sincerely The Opera Ghost

Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-14 Thread Joshua SS Miller
Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier today. Do you have a good resource for this? Thank you, Joshua SS Miller On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 16:15, Dale Amon wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:16:58AM +, Andrew Sayers wrote: > > Or search a floppy disk for intelligibl

Re: Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-14 Thread Rolf Kutz
* Quoting Joshua SS Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier > today. Do you have a good resource for this? http://www.kerneli.org/index.php - rk -- Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE! Yrs sincerely The Opera Ghost -- To UN

Cryptoswap -- was Re: raw disk access

2003-01-14 Thread Joshua SS Miller
Cryptoswap? Hmm sound like something I was thinking about earlier today. Do you have a good resource for this? Thank you, Joshua SS Miller On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 16:15, Dale Amon wrote: > On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:16:58AM +, Andrew Sayers wrote: > > Or search a floppy disk for intelligibl

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-14 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:16:58AM +, Andrew Sayers wrote: > Or search a floppy disk for intelligible-looking strings: > > strings /dev/fd0 | less Precisely why one should always use cryptoswap. -- -- Nuke bin Laden: Dale Am

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-14 Thread Dale Amon
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:16:58AM +, Andrew Sayers wrote: > Or search a floppy disk for intelligible-looking strings: > > strings /dev/fd0 | less Precisely why one should always use cryptoswap. -- -- Nuke bin Laden: Dale Am

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-12 Thread Joshua SS Miller
Just a thought, but could one just use cat? I know that you can write disk image to a floppy with cat, so why should one not be able to cat /dev/hda1 > imagefile Any ideas? Thank you, Joshua SS Miller On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 03:19, Jean-Francois Dive wrote: > already answered but dd | nc (to sen

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-12 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
already answered but dd | nc (to send it to another box) is a classical. Otherwise, some other tools can give you as well memory dumps which may sometimes be very usefull. JeF On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:08:22PM -0500, viv wrote: > Hi. > > As a Debian user, i am posting to this list

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-12 Thread Joshua SS Miller
Just a thought, but could one just use cat? I know that you can write disk image to a floppy with cat, so why should one not be able to cat /dev/hda1 > imagefile Any ideas? Thank you, Joshua SS Miller On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 03:19, Jean-Francois Dive wrote: > already answered but dd | nc (to sen

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-12 Thread Jean-Francois Dive
already answered but dd | nc (to send it to another box) is a classical. Otherwise, some other tools can give you as well memory dumps which may sometimes be very usefull. JeF On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:08:22PM -0500, viv wrote: > Hi. > > As a Debian user, i am posting to this list

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-08 Thread Florian Weimer
viv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i thought originally that dd would work and tried to 'image' > a couple of CDs, but they came out to different sizes although > both were 650MB CDs. The disk sizes differed by about 3 MB, > so i assumed dd was missing something. Imaging 2

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-08 Thread Florian Weimer
viv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i thought originally that dd would work and tried to 'image' > a couple of CDs, but they came out to different sizes although > both were 650MB CDs. The disk sizes differed by about 3 MB, > so i assumed dd was missing something. Imaging 2

RE: raw disk access

2003-01-08 Thread Colin Ellis
or' option. Good Luck :) Colin http://www.solution-city.com -Original Message- From: viv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 08 January 2003 07:19 To: DebianSecurity Cc: Colin Ellis Subject: RE: raw disk access Thanks to all for your quick replies. i thought originall

RE: raw disk access

2003-01-08 Thread viv
evice from start to finish, or does it skip / miss something somewhere? Thanks again. On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:29, Colin Ellis wrote: > The best that can be achieved is via 'dd'. > > however it is actually impossible to get _real_ raw disk access due to the &

RE: raw disk access

2003-01-08 Thread Colin Ellis
or' option. Good Luck :) Colin http://www.solution-city.com -Original Message- From: viv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 January 2003 07:19 To: DebianSecurity Cc: Colin Ellis Subject: RE: raw disk access Thanks to all for your quick replies. i thought originall

RE: raw disk access

2003-01-08 Thread viv
evice from start to finish, or does it skip / miss something somewhere? Thanks again. On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 11:29, Colin Ellis wrote: > The best that can be achieved is via 'dd'. > > however it is actually impossible to get _real_ raw disk access due to the &

RE: raw disk access

2003-01-08 Thread Colin Ellis
The best that can be achieved is via 'dd'. however it is actually impossible to get _real_ raw disk access due to the disk IO controllers. As far as I know, all disk IO controllers have automatic data correction etc and so do hard disks. An accurate copy of the surface of the disk

RE: raw disk access

2003-01-08 Thread Colin Ellis
The best that can be achieved is via 'dd'. however it is actually impossible to get _real_ raw disk access due to the disk IO controllers. As far as I know, all disk IO controllers have automatic data correction etc and so do hard disks. An accurate copy of the surface of the disk

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Sayers
What you're asking for is trivially available on all Linux systems. Through the "/dev" filesystem, the kernel makes many hardware devices available to ordinary programs. For example, if you had mounted your target disk as the secondary master hard drive, you could create an image of the disk by d

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-07 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > i am looking for forensics tools that can be used in computer > crime investigations, and am particularly interesting in a tool > that provides raw drive (hard, floppy, CD, DVD, etc.) access in > order to create comp

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-07 Thread Dale Southard
Is the `dd` command what you are looking for (in combination with /dev/loop?), or is there some requirement that wasn't mentioned in your message? viv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i am looking for forensics tools that can be used in computer > crime investigations, and am particu

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-07 Thread Steve Mickeler
man dd On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, viv wrote: > Hi. > > As a Debian user, i am posting to this list first in the hopes > that what i am looking for can be found as a Debian package. > > i am looking for forensics tools that can be used in computer > crime investigations, an

raw disk access

2003-01-07 Thread viv
Hi. As a Debian user, i am posting to this list first in the hopes that what i am looking for can be found as a Debian package. i am looking for forensics tools that can be used in computer crime investigations, and am particularly interesting in a tool

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-07 Thread Andrew Sayers
What you're asking for is trivially available on all Linux systems. Through the "/dev" filesystem, the kernel makes many hardware devices available to ordinary programs. For example, if you had mounted your target disk as the secondary master hard drive, you could create an image of the disk by d

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-07 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > i am looking for forensics tools that can be used in computer > crime investigations, and am particularly interesting in a tool > that provides raw drive (hard, floppy, CD, DVD, etc.) access in > order to create comp

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-07 Thread Dale Southard
Is the `dd` command what you are looking for (in combination with /dev/loop?), or is there some requirement that wasn't mentioned in your message? viv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i am looking for forensics tools that can be used in computer > crime investigations, and am particu

Re: raw disk access

2003-01-07 Thread Steve Mickeler
man dd On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, viv wrote: > Hi. > > As a Debian user, i am posting to this list first in the hopes > that what i am looking for can be found as a Debian package. > > i am looking for forensics tools that can be used in computer > crime investigations, an

raw disk access

2003-01-07 Thread viv
Hi. As a Debian user, i am posting to this list first in the hopes that what i am looking for can be found as a Debian package. i am looking for forensics tools that can be used in computer crime investigations, and am particularly interesting in a tool