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Cold Boot Attack Utilities Released At HOPE Conference

Posted by Soulskill on from the shining-a-spotlight dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Jacob Appelbaum, one of the security researchers who worked on the cold boot attacks to recover encryption keys from memory even after reboot, has announced the release of the complete source code for the utilities at The Last HOPE in New York City. The hope (obligatory pun) is that the release of these tools will help to improve awareness of this attack vector and enable the development of countermeasures and mitigation techniques in both software and hardware. The full research paper (PDF) is also available."

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  1. RE: Editor/Submitter by Ihmhi · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think the editor and submitter both need to read this.

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  2. Re:Yup by DAldredge · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because changing the laws of physics is hard.

  3. Re:Capturing machines with full disk encryption by Chris+Burkhardt · · Score: 3, Funny

    13. Try not to get hit by truck as you maneuver Frogger machine across street.

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  4. Re:Capturing machines with full disk encryption by Eternauta3k · · Score: 3, Funny

    looks like a forced login every 10 minutes is a good idea for people working with really sensitive data.

    108 minutes is more like it

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  5. A candidate for the Darwin Awards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, do you use this thermite enabled system on your LAPtop?