On Feb 22, 2008, at 9:06 AM, Andreas Engelbert wrote:
but why not just overwrite the keys in DRAM as soon as a shutdown is signaled?
That's good, but any hacker or other computer-forensics person will not allow the computer to shut down. They'll just pull the plug. Quickly.
- Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/