The Impact of Cold Boot Attacks on Disk Encryption
By Bill • Feb 26th, 2008 • Category: Features, News, SecurityOne 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?
