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cold boot attacks on disk encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Feb 21 12:18:03 2008
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:10:33 -0500
Ed Felten blogs on his latest research:
http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1257
Excerpt:
Today eight colleagues and I are releasing a significant new
research result. We show that disk encryption, the standard
approach to protecting sensitive data on laptops, can be defeated
by relatively simple methods. We demonstrate our methods by using
them to defeat three popular disk encryption products: BitLocker,
which comes with Windows Vista; FileVault, which comes with MacOS
X; and dm-crypt, which is used with Linux.
More info: http://citp.princeton.edu/memory
Paper: http://citp.princeton.edu.nyud.net/pub/coldboot.pdf
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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