From: "Liviu Andronic" <landronimirc@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions?
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 20:33:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68b1e2610710041133q2908483cu7877a6b197460922@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710041857.51348.alan@linuxholdings.co.za>
On 10/4/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> On Thursday 04 October 2007, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
>> [..]
> > However, it makes sense to clean up memory after having
> > critical data in it -- e.g. a reboot doesn't necessarily clean up
> > RAM.
>> [..]
>
> Yes, this is very true
BUT
On 10/4/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
> Pray tell, how does RAM manage to retain data when the power is off?
...and...
On 10/4/07, Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:
> In practice, after power is cut, everything in ram is lost.
So, my eternal question, is it realistic for the "lost" RAM data to be
recovered? That is, after system shutdown, does the data still
physically reside on the RAM and can someone with a decent technology
and know-how recover it? In other words, is this a serious breach in
any encrypted system?
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-04 6:42 [gentoo-user] Can RAM render useless the encryption of the / and swap partitions? Liviu Andronic
2007-10-04 13:47 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-10-04 14:34 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-10-04 15:52 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-10-04 16:04 ` Liviu Andronic
2007-10-04 17:49 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2007-10-04 18:28 ` Liviu Andronic
2007-10-04 19:48 ` Mick
2007-10-05 20:57 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2007-10-06 4:22 ` Liviu Andronic
2007-10-06 9:04 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2007-10-04 16:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-10-04 18:33 ` Liviu Andronic [this message]
2007-10-05 11:38 ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2007-10-05 18:57 ` Randy Barlow
2007-10-05 20:44 ` Liviu Andronic
2007-10-09 1:51 ` Alex Schuster
2007-10-15 21:45 ` Liviu Andronic
2007-10-04 18:53 ` Randy Barlow
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