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Comment on Tresor – CPU-only AES implementation resistant to RAM cold-boot attacks (2011)

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Clever but useless. Cold boot attack does not work on RAM with DDR3+. Pretty much all new computers are safe. http://superuser.com/a/464396

Plenty of other attacks work, such as sniffing memory lines on a running system.

That is not CBA so it's not on topic. Extracting encryption keys on a running system is completely other vector attack and I doubt using registers is much safer than RAM in such case. Might be wrong though. :)

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