Computer Data Encryption Cracked by Princeton Graduate Students

Credit: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PHOTOS
It has long been believed that data fades quickly from a computer’s memory and that its encryption is sound once the computer is shut down. Not so, found Princeton University researchers who pried even encrypted data from memory chips after computer power was turned off. A number of government...

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