Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys.

Here's an educational little video that shows you how to easily break most whole-disk encryption products. I can imagine ways to prevent these methods, but they are far from trivial, as they would probably require careful cache control, and assembly-level routines for key management.

As an aside, I should mention that sps and I discussed the potential uses of slow DRAM decay many years ago, but in the context of the possibility of making viruses that would live entirely in RAM, but could survive reboot.

I never thought of this particular application though.

... for a three hour tour, ...

So, on Tuesday, I went over to sfries place to celebrate my birthday. Yes, my birthday was actually last November, but we only now got around to it. Back then she promised to have me over for a drink in celebration of the day, and then a large number of postponements happened.( Click to see it Longer and Uncut. )

I awoke the next morning in a wonderful mood that lasted the rest of that day, and still hasn't completely faded. So, that's how my 3 hour visit ended up lasting the better part of 31 hours. My estimate was only off by an order of magnitude.