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Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption

Posted Feb 21, 2008 17:59 UTC (Thu) by tcoppi (subscriber, #44423)
In reply to: Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption by cventers
Parent article: Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption

I think using superglue/epoxy on the chips combined with power-on memory checking and
disabling of external boot devices(such as network or usb booting) should be able to mitigate
this attack well enough, at least for all but the most paranoid of us.


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