Saturday, February 23, 2008

full disk decryption hack

i think this is a super-cool (haha) hack.... i hope these ppl are gonna bring this to present at bh/dc, or notacon...



a very impressive way to get around something that i think most people took for granted as highly secure...

1 comment:

Jens "jdm" Meyer said...

You beat me to posting on this! Pretty awesome technique, eh? Works against dm-crypt too. I guess this is a reason not to use sleep/hibernate modes :)

I know that data can be recovered from RAM even after the machine is shut down, so can you extend this vector to any machine that stores the key in RAM? I don't know as much as I'd like about FDE, much less about how data gets purged from RAM.