Re: Does reboot clear RAM?

2019-11-11 Thread Jakob Bohm
On 11/11/2019 20:27, Joachim Durchholz wrote: Am 11.11.19 um 15:35 schrieb Jakob Bohm: On physical machines, the following mechanisms are common: 1. DRAM chips physically loose their contents after a few seconds of power    off, I am by no way an expert, but the forensic experts tell me tha

Re: Does reboot clear RAM?

2019-11-11 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Am 11.11.19 um 15:35 schrieb Jakob Bohm: On physical machines, the following mechanisms are common: 1. DRAM chips physically loose their contents after a few seconds of power   off, I am by no way an expert, but the forensic experts tell me that data can persist for *minutes*. Of course, the

Re: Does reboot clear RAM?

2019-11-11 Thread Jakob Bohm
On physical machines, the following mechanisms are common: 1. DRAM chips physically loose their contents after a few seconds of power   off, but not on a CPU reset (reset button on typical board). A CPU reset   does not have this effect.  This also applies to the PC platform. 2. SRAM chips physi