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Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk EncryptionCold Reboot Attacks on Disk EncryptionPosted Feb 28, 2008 7:25 UTC (Thu) by jimparis (subscriber, #38647)Parent article: Cold Reboot Attacks on Disk Encryption
The 99.9% solution that I'm happy with is: never leave my computer unattended while the hard drive encryption keys are present in RAM. That means I never lock the screen and walk away, and I never suspend to ram and walk away. I just suspend to disk and power off completely. The only new thing this research pointed out to me is just how long it takes for unpowered room-temperature RAM to lose its contents -- I suspected it was within a second but it's a bit longer than that. Anyway, this small window can be fixed by modifying the suspend-to-disk process to also clear the RAM right before poweroff (I'm still in control of the laptop at this point, so nobody can interrupt it).
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