Memory forensics

[Grant Olson]

On 3/5/2010 4:30 PM, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> http://jessekornblum.livejournal.com/259124.html
> 
> For quite some time we've known that hibernation files present risks for
> information security.  However, there are always those who say "until I
> see an actual demonstration, I won't believe it."
> 
> The upshot: we now have an actual demonstration.  The takeaway is that
> you should be very, very careful about hibernating your computer while
> passphrases are cached, or while GnuPG is actively processing a file.
> 
> 
That article was a little vague.  And I don't know much about memory
forensics in practice.  Do you know that it actually was a hibernation
file and not swap space?

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