GushpinBob
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May be an interesting, yet disturbing read:
http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/
To sum up the video, they show how easy it is to recover an encryption key from ram after doing a cold reboot and after they transfer the ram stick to another computer.
I'm running their proof of concept on my own laptop to see if memory still retains any information after a cold reboot. What does everyone else think?
UPDATE: Yep, did a cold reboot and searched for the test strings I placed in memory and sure enough they came up several times.
http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/
To sum up the video, they show how easy it is to recover an encryption key from ram after doing a cold reboot and after they transfer the ram stick to another computer.
I'm running their proof of concept on my own laptop to see if memory still retains any information after a cold reboot. What does everyone else think?
UPDATE: Yep, did a cold reboot and searched for the test strings I placed in memory and sure enough they came up several times.