This is just semantics:
"cold boot" to me means booting up from zero power
("cold") to powering on, which means going via a BIOS
and full boot sequence, as opposed to pressing the
reset button which maintains power ("warm boot").
--- Phil <philtickle200@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Do you have some reason to doubt this? Or are you
> > just saying
> > 'so-called' rather than just calling it by the now
> > pretty common name?
> >
> The latter. I said "so-called" because in your paper
> you state that the BIOS frequently overwrites parts
> of
> memory during boot, therefore booting may in some
> cases prevent recovery of keys after power-off.
>
> Which means "cold boot" isn't a very good name,
> that's
> all.
>
> No, I don't doubt that you can recover keys from
> DRAM
> after interrupting power.
>
> btw thank you for the information.
>
>
>
>
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