Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

YouTube – Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys

Slightly populist but worthwhile video about attacks on crypto keys held in powered-off RAM; always remember folks, that when your plaintext is un-necessary, bzero() it before releasing the page or exiting…

Comments

3 responses to “Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys”

  1. This story is another reason state legislatures are unwise to madate encryption as a data security procedure. http://hack-igations.blogspot.com/2008/02/encryption-legislation-goes-overboard.html

  2. >This story is another reason state legislatures are unwise to madate encryption as a data security procedure

    How do you reckon that?

  3. You might be interested in this little tidbit as well:

    http://tinyurl.com/2dje7g

    Back to the good old days of pre-allocated swap and all memory contents on disk. Yippee!

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *