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Re: the cold-boot attack


On Feb 22, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Andreas Engelbert wrote:

but why not just overwrite the keys in DRAM as
soon as a shutdown is signaled?


That's good, but any hacker or other computer-forensics person will not allow the computer to shut down. They'll just pull the plug. Quickly.



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