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by kadoban
2069 days ago
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Not that it'd probably make sense very often, but you could do bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies without having a persistent wallet digitally. You could have a paper backup and/or a memorized secure phrase easily. Been a while, but Electrum could do both years ago, I'm sure many others can as well. Also, more importantly, why are encryption and this amnesiac property mutually exclusive? Can't you do both and use the strongest available guarantees that are applicable to a particular set of data? Seems like it'd at least make the job of an attacker more annoying at the least. |
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Sure. The amnesiac property just doesn't add a lot of security on top of full disk encryption. If you have an encrypted USB stick that contains an amnesiac OS and $TOP_SECRET_DOCUMENT, the information that your adversary cares about is the document. If the adversary somehow breaks the encryption, they still get access to the document, regardless of the amnesiac property of the OS.