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: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 23:45:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68b1e2610710151445j9649b07of3fe1ce4b1956a33@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710090351.35685.wonko@wonkology.org>
On 10/9/07, Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> according to the speaker, most of the RAM may even survives for as long as
> 30 seconds after powering off! At least on a ThinkPad T30 notebook (stated
[..]
> Another thing is Firewire, or hot-pluggable PCI cards (and everything else
> which accesses RAM via DMA). This allows to read the RAM of the running
> system by simply plugging in a firewire device.
> So, resetting the system and booting another one, or plugging in a firewire
> device, allows to get a memory dump. Scary, huh?
On the scary note, I've recently stumbled on this paper by Peter
Gutmann, from the IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, published in 2001 at
a Usenix conference: Data Remanence in Semiconductor Devices [1]. Not
much reassuring either ~_-.
[1] http://www.usenix.org/events/sec01/gutmann.html
Liviu
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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
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 [this message]
2007-10-04 18:53 ` Randy Barlow
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