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...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 90 - 91
Main Author: Anderson, Ross
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery May2009
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