TRESOR

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TRESOR is a software approach that seeks to resolve this insecurity by storing and manipulating encryption keys almost exclusively on the Central Processing Unit (CPU) alone, and in Registers accessible at Protection Rings Ring 0 (the highest privilege level) only—the exception being the brief period of initial calculation at the start of a session. This ensures that encryption keys are almost never available via user space or following a cold boot attack. TRESOR is written as a kernel patch that stores encryption keys in the x86 debug registers, and uses on-the-fly round key generation, atomicity, and blocking of usual ptrace access to the debug registers for security.

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