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TRESOR Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM
TRESOR is a secure implementation of AES which is resistant against cold boot attacks. The basic idea behind this implementation is to store the secret key inside CPU registers rather than in RAM.
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
The Chair of IT Security Infrastructures (Lehrstuhl für Informatik 1, IT-Sicherheitsinfrastrukturen) was established in 2010. The main purpose of the lab is to enable its participants to perform high…
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Android Full Disk Encryption Cold Boot Attack (2012)
At the end of 2011, Google released version 4.0 of its Android operating system for smartphones. For the first time, Android smartphone owners were supplied with a disk encryption feature that…