Disk encryption weakness

Submitted by rw on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 14:04.
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A fascinating 5 minute video describing the key point in a paper from Princeton.

http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/

Apparently all disk encryption schemes have a fundamental weakness that allows a simple attack to recover the keys. There is nothing to DO about this yet, but I think awareness is important.

The research paper is also linked above.

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