Re: Security Flaw in Popular Disk Encryption Technologies



On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Bill Moran wrote:

Or laptop vendors could make "secure" laptops that always lose memory
on shutdown.

That dosn't really change anything, just don't shutdown the laptop.

Cut an opening in the case and attach a probe to monitor memory access and wait for the key being accessed.


/Chris


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