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After reading the article expecting a soft solution to causing a lock-up crash of the OS, I feel that your TL;DR needs to be clarified slightly: Actual freezin
by Pxtl 11y ago
After reading the article expecting a soft solution to causing a lock-up crash of the OS, I feel that your TL;DR needs to be clarified slightly:
Actual freezing. Like, putting the phone in a freezer to create sub-zero temperatures.
- greggarious 11y agoHence "cold boot attack"
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- schoen 11y agoI worked on the original cold boot paper (Halderman et al.) and I understood "cold boot" as "removing power", not as "lowering temperature". (It's a warm boot if you reboot from software, and a cold boot if you reboot by removing power to the machine.) It's understandable that people would have assumed temperature was the reason for "cold" because we had lots of pictures of memory with ice crystals. Under many circumstances, the attack worked at room temperature; one main reason for using low temperatures was if you needed to physically move the RAM chips from one machine to another.