Lest we remember: Cold-boot attacks on encryption keys

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 91-98

  Halderman, J Alex ^a   Schoen, Seth D ^b   Heninger, Nadia ^c   Clarkson, William ^c   Paul, William ^d   Calandrino, Joseph A ^c   Feldman, Ariel J ^c   Appelbaum, Jacob ^e   Felten, Edward W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Electronic Frontier Foundation   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Wind River Systems   (United States)

^e Tor Project

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING TECHNIQUE; CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEY; ENCRYPTION KEY; MAIN MEMORY; MEMORY RETENTION; OPERATING SYSTEMS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECIAL DEVICES; SYSTEM MEMORY;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; LAPTOP COMPUTERS; RISK PERCEPTION;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 66149173689     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1506409.1506429     Document Type: Article

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