Pure Python Data Mangling or Encrypting

Emile van Sebille emile at fenx.com
Wed Jun 24 11:52:25 EDT 2015


On 6/24/2015 7:02 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> And how does writing unmangled data to disk expose anybody to
> anything?  I've never heard of an exploit where writing an evilly
> crafted bit-pattern to disk causes a any sort of problem.

Unless that code is executed at boot.  Mangling would at least prevent 
it from executing.

Emile







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