Messages in this thread | | | From | Holger Lubitz <> | Subject | Re: Encrypted Swap | Date | Fri, 17 Aug 2001 16:50:36 +0200 |
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Ryan Mack proclaimed: > is running. If the system is physically compromised, there is little way > I can think of to take root without having to at least reboot the > computer, thus destroying the unencrypted contents of RAM.
This is a myth. RAM survives rebooting, even after a quick power cycle most cells will probably still be ok. And with todays memory sizes, it would take a noticable amount of time to initialize all of it to a given value, so most systems don't do it (just testing some bytes of every megabyte instead).
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