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Cold boot attacks provide a means to obtain a dump of a computer's volatile memory even if the machine is locked. Such a dump can be used to reconstruct hard disk encryption keys and get access to the content of Bit locker or True crypt encrypted drives. This is even possible, if the obtained dump contains errors. Cold boot attacks have been demonstrated successfully on DDR1 and DDR2 SDRAM. They have...