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Re: wrt Cold Boot Attacks on Disk Encryption

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Len Sassaman)
Sat Mar 15 17:21:18 2008

Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:12:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Len Sassaman <rabbi@abditum.com>
To: Ken Buchanan <ken.buchanan@gmail.com>
Cc: len.sassaman@esat.kuleuven.be, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <378dde5d0802250838p126907d0p96572d5fb1aad9f1@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Ken Buchanan wrote:

> Adam Boileau demonstrated finding passwords, but of course we already
> know that it's easy to locate cryptographic keys in large volumes of
> data (Shamir, van Someren: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/265947.html).

This was implemented (in part by some of my colleagues at Leuven as joint
work with Utimaco) as long ago as 2000:

"KeyGrab TOO The search for keys continues"
Dirk Janssens, Ronny Bjones, Joris Claessens

Citeseer seems to be offline at the moment, but if anyone's interested in
reading the paper, I believe I can give you a copy.


--Len.



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