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Archive for February, 2008

The Impact of Cold Boot Attacks on Disk Encryption

By Bill • Feb 26th, 2008 • Category: Features, News, Security

One of the common uses of disk encryption is to protect this confidential information. For people who have confidential information on their laptops the use of disk encryption is highly recommended if not mandatory. Recently a group at Princeton University published a paper called Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys which presented a suite of attacks that exploit DRAM remanence effects to recover cryptographic keys held in memory. Can we continue to use and recommend these disk encryption programs?



Redesigning this web site to use WordPress

By Bill • Feb 18th, 2008 • Category: News, Web Design

There are a variety of reasons why an organization should redesign their web site. Technology is changing continuously and the site that looked smart and fresh last year looks dull and lifeless this year. This web site was originally constructed using an open source CMS called phpwebsite. This was a nice choice a couple of years ago for a magazine style web site but WordPress has caught up and passed it on the technological front. There are many low cost or free CMS systems out there but I think WordPress is leading the pack. Here are some of the reasons that led me to convert this web site to WordPress.