Using Liquid Nitrogen to Access Encrypted Data
| Feb 21, 2008
image CC-BY by user nikonvscanon
Just saw this on www.Freedom-to-Tinker.com: a method for defeating disk encryption, even using Trusted Computing platforms, by physically cooling the DRAM chip where data is held temporarily, and then reading the private key from that chip. It’s right out of a spy film!
Their conclusion:
There seems to be no easy fix for these problems. Fundamentally, disk encryption programs now have nowhere safe to store their keys.
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