{"id":721,"date":"2009-09-30T14:56:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T09:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qadit.com\/blog\/?p=721"},"modified":"2009-09-30T14:56:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T09:26:40","slug":"what-is-a-cold-boot-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/what-is-a-cold-boot-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Cold Boot Attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0cryptography, a\u00a0<strong>cold boot attack<\/strong> (or to a lesser extent, a\u00a0<strong>platform reset attack<\/strong>) is a type of\u00a0s<span style=\"text-decoration: none;\">ide channel attack<\/span> in which an attacker with physical access to a computer is able to retrieve encryption\u00a0keys\u00a0from a running\u00a0operating system\u00a0after using a\u00a0cold reboot\u00a0to restart the machine from a completely &#8220;off&#8221; state.<span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span> <\/span><\/span>The attack relies on the\u00a0data retention\u00a0property of DRAM\u00a0and SRAM\u00a0to retrieve memory contents which remain readable in the seconds to minutes after power has been removed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0cryptography, a\u00a0cold boot attack (or to a lesser extent, a\u00a0platform reset attack) is a type of\u00a0side channel attack in which an attacker with physical access to a computer is able to retrieve encryption\u00a0keys\u00a0from a running\u00a0operating system\u00a0after using a\u00a0cold reboot\u00a0to restart the machine from a completely &#8220;off&#8221; state. The attack relies on the\u00a0data retention\u00a0property of DRAM\u00a0and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/what-is-a-cold-boot-attack\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is a Cold Boot Attack?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,84,85],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cryptography","tag-encryption","tag-fde"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9AH7Q-bD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qadit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}