[Madlug] RAM Recovery -- (Failed Hard disk question)

[Matthew G. Lamb]

So, what would it take to protect the contents of your RAM from everyone 
but the NSA? Sounds like this might be as much of a challenge.

Just a thought...

-mgl

Timm Murray wrote:

>>Note that the sufficiently well funded can play analagous games with
>>semiconductor memory; if you store data in RAM for a long time there
>>are ways of analyzing the chips to deduce a lot of it too.  Paranoid yet?
> 
> 
> Have been for a while :)
> 
> Note, too, that getting the RAM very cold (e.g., a liquid nitrogen bath) 
> quickly after shutdown should allow it to keep its state for quite 
> some time after the power button goes off(certainly long enough to get it 
> to the lab).
> 
> Also, this is a good point for people who use encrypted file systems. 
> Likely, the key will be stored in memory, probably in the same location, 
> for quite some time. It'd be nice if the crypto kernel drivers would hook 
> into the VM code and change the physical memory address in the relevent 
> memory pages on a regular basis (not sure if it does already).