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Cold Reboot Attacks, indeed

Posted Feb 21, 2008 15:51 UTC (Thu) by abatters (subscriber, #6932)
Parent article: Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption

> Cool the chips in liquid nitrogen (-196 °C) and they hold their state for hours at least,
without any power. Just put the chips back into a machine and you can read out their contents.

Now *that* is a cold reboot attack.

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