Shoaib Yousuf

26 Feb 2008 3:07 AM

Hi Roger,

Good to see you back. It seems like you had a great time.

Excellent comments, I was reading an excellent post by SANS Security team - Dshield: http://www.dshield.org/diary.html?storyid=4006.

In this post they have mention the abstract of the white paper released which states: "Contrary to popular assumption, DRAMs used in most modern computers retain their contents for seconds to minutes after power is lost, even at operating temperatures and even if removed from a motherboard..."

If attacker has physical access even if you shut down your notebook - keys can still be restored.

What your comments on it?

Cheers

Shoaib

rhalbheer

26 Feb 2008 4:52 AM

Hi Shoaib,

thank you (as always) for your feedback. If I think about the thread of being able to read the memory let's say 3-5 minutes after I hibernated. This would mean that I hibernate, somebody immediately steals my notebook and immediately is able to reag my RAM. Is this really the biggest risk you want to address? If you are in the intelligence business, this might be it. If you are in the commercial sector - I doubt it

Roger

Shoaib Yousuf

26 Feb 2008 8:10 AM

Hi Roger,

Thanks.

True, end of the day it all matters how valuable data you are carrying?

Cheers

Shoaib

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