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Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption
Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption
Posted Feb 21, 2008 16:32 UTC (Thu) by patrick_g (subscriber, #44470)In reply to: Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption by flewellyn
Parent article: Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption
>>The only idea that comes to mind is programming the system firmware to "wipe" all system RAM on startup, overwriting the contents of RAM with zeroes prior to loading any operating system. I'm not sure if that would help, though.
If you click on the article link there is an answer to your idea : "An adversary can remove the chips from the target computer and transplant them into another computer that doesn’t overwrite RAM on startup".
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Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption
Posted Feb 21, 2008 16:41 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
Yes, I know; I asked that question there. :-)