Re: the cold-boot attack - a paper tiger?

[Phil <philtickle200@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Because loop-aes *is* vulnerable to our attacks.
> 
> The keying material is in memory when we mount our
> attack. We were able
> to reliably extract keys required to decrypt the
> data on the disk.
> 

So I am right in saying that quitting X and
overwriting  free memory as root with a utility such
as smem after pulling down the loop will prevent key
recovery?



      

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