• DOI:10.1145/2076732.2076743
Corpus ID: 15718239

Security through amnesia: a software-based solution to the cold boot attack on disk encryption

@inproceedings{Simmons2011SecurityTA,
  title={Security through amnesia: a software-based solution to the cold boot attack on disk encryption},
  author={Patrick Simmons},
  booktitle={ACSAC '11},
  year={2011}
}

Patrick Simmons

Published in ACSAC '11 2011

Computer Science

Disk encryption has become an important security measure for a multitude of clients, including governments, corporations, activists, security-conscious professionals, and privacy-conscious individuals. Unfortunately, recent research has discovered an effective side channel attack against any disk mounted by a running machine [23]. This attack, known as the cold boot attack, is effective against any mounted volume using state-of-the-art disk encryption, is relatively simple to perform for an… CONTINUE READING

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