cold boot attacks on disk encryption

[Ali, Saqib]

>  Umm, pardon my bluntness, but what do you think the FDE stores the key
>  in, if not DRAM? The encrypting device controller is a computer system
>  with a CPU and memory. I can easily imagine what you'd need to build
>  to do this to a disk drive. This attack works on anything that has RAM.

How about TPM? Would this type of attack work on a tamper-resistant ver1.2 TPM?

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