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Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
pucitp · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2011–2020).
SignalTube analysis
Among 20 other demo videos tagged Security & hacking, the mean is 0.8 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.2× that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 0.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
25% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2011–2020; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 5 minutes 22 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2008-02-21.
- Channel / speaker
- pucitp
- Verified runtime
- 5m 22s
- YouTube upload date
- 2008-02-21
- Hacker News mention years
- 2011–2020
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other demo videos in Security & hacking. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption KeysCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 25% | — | 5m 22s | 2008-02-21 |
| [1299] Unpickable Locks From Stuff Made Heredemo · LockPickingLawyer | 5 | 3 | 63% | No recorded overlap | 10m 35s | 2021-05-31 |
| TWO Unpickable (?) Locks for Lock Picking Lawyer!demo · Stuff Made Here | 3 | 3 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 14m 40s | 2021-05-31 |
| Can you fit a whole game into a QR code?demo · MattKC | 2 | 2 | 29% | No recorded overlap | 20m 3s | 2020-07-31 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop”. Its short rationale: Shows retrieving encryption keys from RAM after shutdown.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “BusKill: A kill cord for your laptop”. Its short rationale: Shows the timing limits of cold boot attacks.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Full disk encryption is too good?”. Its short rationale: Backs up the claim that RAM freezing can recover keys.