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gst on May 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tresor Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM

Right, cold boot attacks would also apply to suspend-to-disk. But currently I do not really worry about this scenario, as it seems that cold boot attacks are only feasible if you get access to the hardware within several minutes after it has been powered down.

tptacek on May 30, 2011 [–]

Sure. If you don't care about cold-boot attacks, you don't care about this research. I think it's interesting, but it doesn't keep me up at night.

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