Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Insecurity of Disk Encryption

Insecurity of Disk Encryption It looks like many disk encryption schemes are vulnerable if someone has physical access to your drive, thanks to researchers with Princeton University and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. They've discovered a flaw and published their findings... The attack takes only a few minutes to conduct and uses the disk encryption key that's stored in the computer's RAM. The attack works because content as well as encryption keys stored in RAM linger in the system, even