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9
2008
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And I thought I was fairly good in soccer… It’s amazing what these guys can do.



March
8
2008
1:32 am
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A very interesting research from Princeton with a demo video about cold boot attack on encryption keys which are read from RAM and not the usual hard disk keys.

Here’s the video:




Abstract Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard. Although DRAMs become less reliable when they are not refreshed, they are not immediately erased, and their contents persist sufficiently for malicious (or forensic) acquisition of usable full-system memory images…

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