April 08, 2024

557: Crouching kexec, Hidden Linux

59 minutes

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Defeating Plausible Deniability of VeraCrypt Hidden Operating Systems — This paper analyzes the security of VeraCrypt hidden operating systems.

How To Emulate Persistent Memory using the Linux "memmap" Kernel Option

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