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Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
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A short Princeton CITP video describing cold boot attacks, where encryption keys remain in DRAM after power loss and can be recovered. It covers the attack against disk encryption such as BitLocker, FileVault and TrueCrypt.
It is linked as the original short demonstration that keys can be pulled from RAM after shutdown.
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