Author Archives: Scott Rose

About Scott Rose

I am the webmaster and data architect for University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering. In that role I installed and helped configure this install of WordPress, and I maintain it.

Cold Boot Attacks on Disk Encryption

Posted on February 22, 2008 by Scott Rose

Well-known security researcher and commentator Ed Felton and colleagues at Princeton report on a technique for breaking many whole-disk encryption schemes, including the most common ones. The attack is based upon scanning RAM for encryption keys, and is even (reported … Continue reading →

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