-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ILYA Khlopotov wrote: > Hi > > Another issue is so called "cold boot atack" > http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/21/cold-boot-disk-encryption-attack-is-shockingly-effective/ > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_70UC0tPUU > It can be used even against encrypted disks. > This makes for a cool video, but it is not as practical in the field as you might expect. Besides there are easier ways to get the info. If you have a firewire port no disassembly is required (firewire is a bus, and so you can directly dump a RAM image into another machine.
IIRC, truecrypt helps protect against the cold boot attack. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoB9nwACgkQwRXgH3rKGfOkNQCdFtGLPpVpgfd2QVKqLyj4fhUD YEgAoKSMFkWZppMguGSIfHWdBJiUbgfA =TOZe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
