Princeton Team Cracks Popular Disk Encryption Software

Posted on February 26, 2008 8:44 AM

A team of researchers primarily from Princeton released Thursday, Feb. 21st, vulnerabilities in many full-disk encryption software packages that could allow attackers to gain access to the encryption key from RAM.  In most cases, the system would have to be compromised while on, or in "suspend" or "hibernate" mode; however, some exceptions exist.  To read the full research paper, watch the video, or review frequently asked questions go to http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/

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Comment by Russ Horn

February 26, 2008 5:47 PM

GuardianEdge (a maker of Hard Disk Encryption products) released the following statement in response to the paper "Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys" released by Princeton University, Electronic Frontier Foundation, & Wind River Systems.
www.guardianedge.com/.../february-25-2008.php

Comment by Russ Horn

March 6, 2008 5:51 PM

Microsoft released the following Blog in response to the paper "Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys" released by Princeton University, Electronic Frontier Foundation, & Wind River Systems.
blogs.msdn.com/.../...tacks-and-other-threats.aspx

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