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Re: cold boot attacks on disk encryption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ali, Saqib)
Thu Feb 21 18:58:53 2008
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:37:20 -0800
From: "Ali, Saqib" <docbook.xml@gmail.com>
To: "Jon Callas" <jon@callas.org>
Cc: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <8404C3FB-A44F-4430-822F-3A77F1AAB9B8@callas.org>
> Umm, pardon my bluntness, but what do you think the FDE stores the key
> in, if not DRAM? The encrypting device controller is a computer system
> with a CPU and memory. I can easily imagine what you'd need to build
> to do this to a disk drive. This attack works on anything that has RAM.
How about TPM? Would this type of attack work on a tamper-resistant ver1.2 TPM?
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