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		MichaelGG on Sept 27, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TRESOR Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM Interesting, that sounds correct: http://www1.cs.fau.de/filepool/projects/coldboot/fares_coldb... Even with cooling they weren't able to recover. However, a warm reboot, would still work. Speculating, but some laptops might have a way to force a reboot like some machines have a reset button. That'd at least restart the system, although proper BIOS config should prevent that from being useful.

sigstoat on Sept 27, 2013 [–]

hm, it looks to me like they just cover the sorts of temperatures you see in refrigerators.

any idea if work has been done on cryogenic temperatures?

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