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+-   Cold Bool Utilities Released at HOPE-> on Sunday July 20 2008, @02:44AM Anonymous Coward

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 20 2008, @02:44AM
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An anonymous reader writes "Jacob Appelbaum (one of the security researchers who worked on the cold boot attacks to recover encryption keys from memory even after reboot) has announced the release of the complete source code for the utilities at The Last HOPE in New York City. The hope (obligatory pun) is that the release of these tools will help to improve awareness of this attack vector and enable the development of countermeasures and mitigation techniques in both software and hardware."
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