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Countermeasures to Cold Booting Attacks

Published
by
Dan Guido
on February 23, 2008
in Crypto, Forensics and Physical Security
. 5 Comments

There’s been a bit of a back and forth discussion on one of our mailing lists regarding Ed Felten’s recent cold-booting attacks on software FDE (BitLocker, FileVault, dm-crypt etc.). I thought it might be worthwhile to collect some of the potential software-only modifications that would protect against his attacks.

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