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Computer security

an attack that recovers encryption keys from DRAM after power loss by exploiting data remanence, often slowed by cooling the chips.

In computer security, cold boot attack refers to an attack that recovers encryption keys from DRAM after power loss by exploiting data remanence, often slowed by cooling the chips. This meaning comes from Halderman (2009) in Communications of the ACM.[1]

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attack4 fields · 10 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs encryption1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct loss2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

References

Halderman, J. A., Schoen, S. D., Heninger, N., Clarkson, W., Paul, W., Calandrino, J. A., Feldman, A. J., Appelbaum, J., & Felten, E. W. (2009). Lest we remember: cold-boot attacks on encryption keys. Communications of the ACM, 52(5), 91-98. https://doi.org/10.1145/1506409.1506429

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