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Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk EncryptionCold Reboot Attacks on Disk EncryptionPosted Feb 21, 2008 19:21 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption by freemars Parent article: Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption
Or, alternatively, in some other device: perhaps the graphics chip. On any given system there's some bit of complicated hardware that is not used. On many systems the 3D features are never used (e.g. Nvidia chip w/ nv driver). Others have firewire, or an MMC slot. For security, it could be an advantage that the key is stored at different addresses on different machines, particularly if random values are stored in the others, and the actual location used on any given boot is chosen from among them at random.
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