Hi Chris, Chris wrote (26 Dec 2011 10:05:27 GMT) : > I understand what cold boot attack is although what is this suppose > to protect against exactly? Is it dismount encrypted drive and wipe > after x seconds of inactivity? If the system loses power wouldn't > the attack still work since you couldn't have wiped it? Or is it > that through the use of registers you are avoiding storing it in > memory and are wiping that memory which is initially used? > The question then I would think becomes can you recover from the key > from the registers.
If you're interested in that level of detail, please start by reading our specification and design document: https://tails.boum.org/contribute/design/ Cheers, -- intrigeri <[email protected]> | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc | The impossible just takes a bit longer. _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
