Seminar topic: Cold Boot Attacks

This repository contains materials about our seminar topic Cold Boot Attacks.

Information about this seminar can be found here: https://trust.cispa.saarland/teaching/SS17/hacking.html

Our presentation slides are provided as coldboot.pdf.

We implemented small programs to fill memory before the cold boot and read it afterwards:

• fill_mem.c: Used during testing to fill memory with a magic string (**ColdBoot**). After reboot we were able to grep for this string (dd if=/dev/mem | strings | grep ColdBoot).
• find_string.c: A small program that searches memory for the string ColdBoot.
• find_key.c: Searches memory for private SSH keys.