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Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption

Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption

Posted Feb 21, 2008 16:14 UTC (Thu) by beoba (guest, #16942)
In reply to: Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption by flewellyn
Parent article: Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption

"At these temperatures (around -50 °C) you can remove the chips from the computer and let them
sit on the table for ten minutes or more, without appreciable loss of data."

So you can probably just pull the RAM modules and stick em into a machine that reads their
contents.


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