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Re: recovering from compromised keys



On 9/24/10, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> wrote:

> Suspend-to-RAM also works, but is obviously not secure against attackers
> waking up the laptop and exploiting some bug in a locked screensaver, or
> remote access, or whatever.

Don't forget about folks using cold boot attacks to grab your key from
RAM. I also saw a paper somewhere about returning the system to a
running state after such attacks.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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