They make no mention of how this works as far as the encryption type.
Ie, Bitlocker, Truecrypt, PGP, etc are all software based encryption.

What about hardware based disk encryption?  Do the keys ever pass though
RAM?  Could a similar tactic be used?





-----Original Message-----
From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 12:03 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: FYI: Security boffins unveil BitUnlocker

   http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/02/21-0

"Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys" :

   http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/

...or how about literally freezing the data:

   http://www.physorg.com/news122820185.html


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