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cold boot attack
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What does cold boot attack mean?
cold boot attack
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(cryptography) A type of sidechannel attack in which somebody with physical access to a computer is able to retrieve encryption keys from a running operating system after a reboot. It relies on the fact that the contents of memory can still be read for a short period after power is cut off.
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