Hack N Mod - Amazingly Cool Hacks, Mods, and DIY Projects » encryption cracking http://hacknmod.com Amazingly Cool Hacks, Mods, and DIY Projects Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:04:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 How to Hack Encryption Keys using Compressed Air http://hacknmod.com/hack/how-to-hack-encryption-keys-using-compressed-air/ http://hacknmod.com/hack/how-to-hack-encryption-keys-using-compressed-air/#comments Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:18:33 +0000 Joe L http://hacknmod.com/?p=978

Holding a compressed air can upside down creates extreme cooling of minus 50 degrees Celsius.  Spray this on memory and the stored data fades five times slower than it would naturally.  A full experiment conducted by Princeton exploits this little known property.  “(Memory is) not immediately erased, and their contents remain for malicious (or forensic) acquisition of usable full-system memory images.”


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