OT: Encryption keys persist in RAM, after shutdown, enabling FDE bypass

[Chris Walsh <chris () cwalsh org>]

Ed Felten and colleagues have a paper out which shows how full disk encryption
products, among them BitLocker, can be defeated by reading encryption keys
from RAM chips *after the machine has been powered off*.

See http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/ for more.

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