Technical Perspective: A Chilly Sense of Security.
The article discusses another article in the issue, "Lest We Remember: Cold-Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys," by J. Alex Halderman and others, which examines the manner in which security software is written and tested. Numerous systems rely on a master key being kept secret, the author states. Topic...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 90 - 91 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
May2009
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| Sumario: | The article discusses another article in the issue, "Lest We Remember: Cold-Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys," by J. Alex Halderman and others, which examines the manner in which security software is written and tested. Numerous systems rely on a master key being kept secret, the author states. Topics of discussion include laptop encryption software and protecting disk files kept in RAM (Random-Access Memory). |
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