Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
Saturday February, 2008 04:14 AM
Alex Halderman, Seth Schoen, Nadia Heninger, William
Paul, Joe Calandrino, Ari Feldman, Jacob Appelbaum,
Ed Felten and I released a paper on Thursday about
our research on encryption keys that remain in memory
even after the computer has been shutdown. The period
of data remanence varies dramatically with
temperature. We also describe ways to cool down the
memory modules using common "canned air" products.
For more information see our website, or our video: