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[Dataloss] OT: Encryption keys persist in RAM, after shutdown, enabling FDE bypass
From: Chris Walsh (chris
cwalsh.org)
Date: Thu Feb 21 2008 - 10:54:57 CST
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Ed Felten and colleagues have a paper out which shows how full disk encryption
products, among them BitLocker, can be defeated by reading encryption keys
from RAM chips *after the machine has been powered off*.
See http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/ for more.
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